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Ricebean (Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi and Ohashi, previously Phaseolus calcaratus) is a small hairy warm-season annual vine legume with yellow flowers and small edible beans. To date, it is little known, little researched and little exploited. It is regarded as a minor food and fodder crop and is often grown as intercrop or mixed crop with maize (Zea mays), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and cowpea (V. unguiculata) as well as a sole crop in uplands on a very limited area. Like the other Asiatic Vigna species, ricebean is a fairly short-lived warm-season annual. Grown mainly as a dried pulse, it is also important as a fodder, a green manure and a vegetable. Ricebean is most widely grown as an intercrop, particularly of maize, throughout Indo-China and extending into southern China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. In the past it was widely grown as lowland crop on residual soil water after the harvest of long-season rice, but it has been displaced to a great extent where shorter duration rice varieties are grown. Ricebean grows well on a range of soils. It establishes rapidly and has the potential to produce large amounts of nutritious animal fodder and high quality grain.
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Harvested Vigna umbellata beans | |
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Species: | V. umbellata |
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Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi | |
The English language name is a literal translation of the Chinese language name (Chinese: 飯豆; pinyin: fàndòu).