In Africa a variety of indigenous cereals, legumes and tubers are cultivated as starchy food crops. These include sorghum, millet species including pearl millet, finger millet, teff and white and black fonio, and African rice as cereals; cowpea, Bambara groundnut, African yambean and West African locust bean as legumes; and Zulu round potato and the Livingstone potato as tubers. Many of these p...

Copper is a trace mineral that plays an important role in human metabolism, largely because it allows many critical enzymes to function properly. Little is known of copper content of Nigerian foods. In this paper, copper contents of several typical Nigerian foods were determined. The samples were collected from Kanam of Plateau State in central region of Nigeria. The samples were wet-ashed acco...

Land con®guration in combination with nutrient management has the potential to improve the productivity of Al®sols and Vertisols in the semi-arid tropics. A four year (1989±1990 and 1992±1993) ®eld experiment was conducted at Coimbatore, India on Al®sols (Chromic Cambisol) to compare the effect of land con®guration and nutrient management practices on yield of rainfed sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (...

Boron (B) is an essential micronutrient in the growth of reproductive plant parts. Its deficiency and/or toxicity are widespread arid and semi-arid soils with low clay contents. This study was planned to determine response sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L., non-leguminous crop) cowpea (Vigna sinensis leguminous boron (0, 2, 4, 16 µg g?1) on four distinct soil series from Punjab, Pakistan i.e., Udic H...

Vigna umbellata (Thunb.)Ohwi and Ohashi, previously Phaseolus calcaratus, is a warm-season legume, commonly called as rice bean and it is a mixed crop with maize, sorghum and cowpea. In this paper proximate composition of rice bean flour and its functional properties and effect of soaking on proximate composition, anti-nutritional factors, functional properties, cooking quality and PCMP number ...

The need to increase cowpea production solve the menace of malnutrition is a global challenge and land limitations have also made intercropping indispensable. Field trials were carried out at Teaching Research Farm, Kwara State University, Malete, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) Idofian evaluate growth yield cultivars sorghum with their competitive behavior in cowpea-sorgh...

Information on long-term fertilization combined with crop rotation can contribute to better management of West African Lixisols. There is little information how organic inputs influence soil chemical properties under cereal monoculture versus a legume. Here, we investigated regimes emphasis in sorghum compared sorghum-cowpea rotation. The field trial Saria Burkina Faso, which has been operation...

The high use of wheat flour today makes Indonesia dependent on imports. One the commodities that can replace is sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench), this confirmed by various studies. purpose study was to determine balance and cowpea as raw materials for making cookies which have starch digestibility characteristics. This used a Randomized Block Design (RAK) method consisted six treatments th...

Climate change is severely disrupting ecosystem services and crop productivity, resulting in lower growth yields. Studies have emphasized the importance of assessing conservation practices through modelling to improve cropland productivity. There a lack accurate information performance as well data for improved modelling. No-tillage sorghum–cowpea intercrop experiments were established assess p...

On-farm experiments and pot trials were conducted on eight West African soils to explore the mechanisms governing the often reported legume rotation-induced cereal growth increases in this region. Crops comprised pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor Moench), maize (Zea mays L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata Walp.) and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). In groundnut trials t...