cowpea
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From our crop reference
Cowpea is a pulse crop, grown in the kharif · zaid season. Sow it in Jun–Jul, Feb–Mar and expect to harvest in 70–90 days. It wants a pH of 5.5–7.5 (close to neutral) and 25–35°C. Plant at 45 × 15 cm, allowing 20–25 kg of seed per hectare. A good crop returns around 1–1.5 t. Watch for aphid, pod borer.
Growing Cowpea6 sentences from our guides, quoted exactly
Roughage and green fodder Conserve rainy-season forage: make silage or hay from sorghum, maize, cowpea or local grasses to cover lean months.
Lateritic or poorer soils: choose hardy sorghums, multi-cut legumes (e.g., cowpea) and native grasses.
Castor with Cowpea: Castor acts as a trap crop to divert Spodoptera litura from cowpea.
If intercropping with legumes (e.g., cowpea), mark rows to maintain plant populations and ease harvest.
Annuals: Sorghum-sudan hybrids, bajra (pearl millet), cowpea and berseem (in irrigated pockets/winter).
Soil for fodder: For growing green fodder (sudan grass, maize, sorghum, cowpea), well-drained loamy to clay-loam soils are preferred.
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