#NewNiger Agenda is mobilizing 1million smallholder farmers across the 25 LGAs for the 2024 wet season farming with focus on cash & food crops such as rice, maize, soya beans, millet, sorghum, cowpea, sesame, cassava & yam with an expected output of 4million metric tons of food.

Someone asked...

With the rising cost of fertilizer

What are the crops we can grow that don't need too much fertilizer.

All Nitrogen fixating crops i.e Leguminous plants are good

- Groundnut,
- Cowpea (beans)
- Soyabean

They can fix up to 50kg of Nitrogen per hectare.

Women in Nigeria celebrate Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) #Cowpea . youtu.be/raPT7WKKvnk?si…

How are you preparing for the rainfed season this Year.

Looking at pointers last season, almost all crops cultivated became very valuable.

This season, you can cultivate
#Rice
#Maize
#Soyabeans
#Cassava
#Yam
#Cowpea etc....

Don't be on the sidelines, farm something

Integrative phenomic-transcriptomic study reveals contrasting leaf water use behaviors in vegetable soybean and cowpea under root drought. 🌱 #plantphysiology Oxford Journals
Details:academic.oup.com/hr/article/10/…

Investment Guides for CBSPs
1. Sorghum: hdl.handle.net/10568/140461
2. Cowpea:hdl.handle.net/10568/1404
3. Rice:hdl.handle.net/10568/140459
4. Soybean:hdl.handle.net/10568/140458
5. Maize:hdl.handle.net/10568/140457
6. Millet:hdl.handle.net/10568/140456
7. Groundnut:hdl.handle.net/10568/140462
IITA

Instablog9ja Cowpea seeds

1/2: In #Niger , the Feed the Future USAID Yalwa activity joined forces with local #cowpea unions & private sector partners to distribute over 5,000 50-kg bags of affordable, locally produced phosphate-based fertilizer for 2,200 cowpea farmers, including for 1,426 women.

Food Facts 🤗

Cowpea beans are rich in protein, iron, zinc, and vitamins B and C, promoting growth and development. Their dietary fiber content aids digestion and prevents constipation, supporting overall health in children.

#Eat Healthy, Eat Organic 😋

GHANA – The Legacy Crop Improvement Centre (LCIC) located in the Eastern Region of Ghana has unveiled a new bean variety named Zamzam cowpea.
foodsafetyafrica.net/legacy-crop-im…

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How are you preparing for the rainfed season this Year.

Looking at pointers last season, almost all crops cultivated became very valuable.

This season, you can cultivate
#Rice
#Maize
#Soyabeans
#Cassava
#Yam
#Cowpea etc....

Don't be on the sidelines, farm something

Activation of cysteine proteases in cowpea plants during the hypersensitive response--a form of programmed cell death eurekamag.com/research/045/1…

Pests of Blackgram, greengram, cowpea_Dr.UPR.pdf #binomics #blackgram slideshare.net/slideshow/pest… via SlideShare

'Farmers in northeastern Ghana have been cultivating the cowpea [...]since the Bronze Age. How was it possible that people continuing to farm in that lineage, some 5,000 years later, could face 15 years in prison for infringing property claims on crop varieties'

Chirag Barjatya Rahul | Data & Tech This study is only for Cowpea

Not for all vegetables

In this method also

First pressure cooking for limited time ( 2-3 Min ) followed by Boiling method is recommend

Not fully pressure cooking

So your arguments failed here

Promoting sustainable agriculture by exploiting plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) to improve maize and cowpea crops dlvr.it/T5YFkW PeerJ Publishing

2/2: This natural, cost-effective alternative to traditional fertilizer is helping strengthen the resilience of the #cowpea value chain in #Niger by ensuring producers can thrive despite price shocks to imported fertilizers as a result of the war in Ukraine.

Omo Abiodun Beans for me.. both are 'peas'
groundnut = peanut
beans = cowpea

Gems of Engineering Native Indian Flowering Plants:
These native Indian flowering plants that could be used instead of non-native options:
- Utricularia (Bladderwort)
- Balsam (Impatiens balsamina)
- Eriocaulon (Pipewort)
- Smithia (Smithia sensitive)
- Vigna (Wild Cowpea)