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Only available one month before planting season
Cowpeas are fast growing, annual, summer forage legumes. They are excellent quality crops for fattening both sheep and cattle, and are also regarded as good feed for milking cows. In a crop rotation program, they can significantly improve soil nitrogen levels by nitrogen fixation or by incorporation in soil as a green manure crop. Cowpeas also offer the alternative of grain production.
Both cowpeas and lablab are tolerant of drought and heat. Soybeans (Glycine max) are also very useful forage and hay crops in some situations.
Kg/ha 30 - 50
Plant October - January
Grain yields: 1-3 t/ha/season
Forage yields: 3-10 t DM/ha/season
Depending on environmental conditions and management
Multi-purpose legume
High forage yield
High forage quality and palatability
Establishes easily on wide variety of soils
Green manure and cover crop application (improves soil fertility)
Drought tolerant