Middelen Tagged: Velvet Bean

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  1. 15 Underutilized Crops for Improving the Lives of Smallholder Farm Families

    14-11-2018 Despite the incredible diversity of useful plants that exist, a small handful of crops feed the majority of the world and millions of people still suffer from malnutrition and poverty. This talk will discuss some often overlooked crops that have the potential to alleviate suffering through...
    Sunflowers Chayote Yam Bamboo Velvet Bean Jujube Carambola Starfruit Breadnut Breadfruit Jackfruit Papaya Cactus Mulberry Katuk Chaya Potatoes Underutilized Crops

  2. Some Interesting Questions About Velvet Beans

    19-04-1997 Information about seed set and nutrition of velvet beans.
    Velvet Bean Health Mucuna Nutrition

  3. Bush Velvet Bean

    Bush forms of Mucuna pruriens grow rapidly, but have a more compact growth habit than vining types. The leaves are large and trifoliate with lateral leaflets 7–15 cm long, 5–12 cm wide. Flowers are light purple or white, resulting in pods 4-13 cm in length. Wild forms of M. pruriens have pods...
    Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Cover Crops Green Manures and ... Mucuna Velvet Bean

  4. Velvet Bean

    Velvet bean is a vigorous, nitrogen-fixing, bushy or vining, annual plant. The vines will climb anything available and can reach 10 m or more in length. Velvet bean is somewhat drought tolerant and is an excellent green manure or cover crop with ability to suppress weeds and provide generous...
    Green Manures and ... Pasture and Forage... Mucuna Velvet Bean

  5. Is Velvet Bean Safe to Eat?

    19-12-1988 I am devoting three pages to this question because velvet bean is generating so much interest and the pressure to use it for human food is considerable. The multiple uses of velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) as a green manure plant, for weed and erosion control and for moisture conservation has been...
    Velvet Bean

  6. Do Velvet Bean Leaves Contain L-DOPA

    19-07-1997 Lawrence Gilley in Mozambique wrote to us, wonderingwhether velvet bean leaves can be eaten by people. “Mozambicans regularly eat the leaves of cowpeas, cassava, sweet potato, amaranth and squash as well as various wild herbs. If velvet bean leaves…could be consumed and are palatable, it would be...
    allelopathic Velvet Bean L-Dopa

  7. EDN Issue #47

    19-01-1995 Echo's First Agricultural Missions Conference Echos From our Network Keeping Elephants Out of the Fields Innovations in Green Manures New Information on the Toxic Substance in Velvet Beans
    Green Manures Velvet Bean

  8. Velvet Bean (Mucuna pruriens)

    20-01-2003 In 1997 Milton Flores with CIDICCO in Honduras provided our seedbank with seed for a bush velvet bean that is being grown widely in Brazil. We have grown and distributed this bush velvet bean on a limited scale since that time, and now are offering it to our network.
    Velvet Bean Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Seeds

  9. Mucuna Trichomes as a Dewormer for Goats

    20-07-2006 Trichomes from Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. pruriens (also known as kewach or cow-itch) are effective in removing parasitic worms in pregnant does.
    Velvet Bean Livestock Parasites Mucuna

  10. Recipes for Velvet Beans -- and a Caution!

    19-06-1992 More discussion on consumption of Velvet Beans.
    Velvet Bean Legume Health Nutrition