The following excerpt on cowpea varieties was taken from chapter 15, “Cowpeas.” To locate mail order companies that carry these heirloom cowpea varieties, use our Custom Seed and Plant Finder.

Conventional cowpea varieties lack resistance to the insect. Insecticide is the primary control measure, adding costs and environmental and health risks. We are researchers at different research ...

But breeding new cowpea varieties with desirable traits, such as disease resistance, pest resistance and drought tolerance, is a time-consuming and laborious process that can take a decade from ...

The Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has proposed that two varieties of cowpea developed by the Institute be released for public use.

Singh had written a book about cowpea history, after decades developing varieties, including a much-celebrated 60-day cowpea that only took two months to mature. He’d studied cowpeas in the ...

Nboyine received funding from USAID. TJ Higgins received funding from the USAID. Conventional cowpea varieties lack resistance to the insect. Insecticide is the primary control measure ...

Conventional cowpea varieties lack resistance to the insect. Insecticide is the primary control measure, adding costs and environmental and health risks. We are researchers at different research ...