Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production by Tony Winch

Author:Tony Winch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: IB Dave's Library
Published: 2010-05-10T14:41:17+00:00

seeds which are either red, dark red or white.

(4) Pea Bean is the name often used in the commercial grain trade. (5) Ochipokeh is a general name for “beans” (“Chitanga” is for all types of climbing

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Haricot beans are grown either for their green pods, when they are commonly known as French beans, or for their dried grain, when they are commonly known as Haricot beans, or Haricots.

Several hundred varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris are available, exhibiting a wide range of different plant types, which vary from the tall climbing or “pole” types with twining stems which may grow up to 5 m long, to the dwarf or bush types no more than 30 or 40 cm tall.

They are the most important grain legume, or “pulse”, in Latin America and some parts of Africa, where they provide a valuable, protein rich supplement to carbohydrate staple food crops such as cassava, plantains and rice. Haricots, as they are often known, are grown widely throughout the world, but are of relatively minor importance in India and most of tropical Asia where other legumes, which are indigenous to these areas, are more popular.

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