Resources Tagged: Velvet Bean

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  1. Innovations in Green Manures

    1995-01-19 Information about green manure and cover crop legumes.
    Velvet Bean Roland Bunch Legume Cover Crops Green Manures

  2. Use of Legume Cover Crops in Orchards or Plantations

    1994-10-19 The use of cover crops in orchards and plantations. Since the early 1900s legumes have been used as cover crops in oil palm plantations in Asia. More recently it is being evaluated for other trees: soursop (Annona muricata) in Costa Rica, citrus in Honduras and Surinam, bananas in Panama, etc....
    Velvet Bean Cover Crops Legume Tropical Kudzu Desmodium

  3. New Information on the Toxic Substance in Velvet Beans

    1995-01-19 More information about detoxifying Velvet Beans.
    Velvet Bean Health Nutrition

  4. Success With Velvet Bean in the Republic of Benin

    1993-12-19 Velvet bean,Mucuna pruriens, hasprobably had more impact on farmers lives than any plant distributed from our seedbank.
    Velvet Bean Legume Cover Crops Green Manures

  5. Velvet Bean (Mucuna pruriens)

    2003-01-20 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

  6. Mucuna Trichomes as a Dewormer for Goats

    2006-07-20 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

  7. Is Velvet Bean Safe to Eat?

    1988-12-19 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

  8. Agrobotanical, nutritional and bioactive potential of unconventional legume - Mucuna

    Abstract,Livestock Research for Rural Development, 2009 Unconventional legumes are promising in terms of nutrition, providing food security, agricultural development and in crop rotation in developing countries. The wild legume, Mucuna consists of about 100 varieties/accessions and are in great...
    Mucuna pruriens Velvet Bean

  9. 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

  10. 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