Cowpea Research, Production, and Utilization

Cowpea (also called Southernpea and Blackeyed Pea) is a highly nutritious crop particularly suited to the stressful growing conditions of tropical Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. Intensive research programmes in centres around the world have, in recent years, greatly improved the crops' yield, our efficiency in growing it and methods of processing the end product. This book (the proceedings of the first International World Cowpea Research Conference) draws together the most current work on Cowpea taxonomy, genetics, physiology, pathology, breeding, entomology agronomy, nutrition and processing, and represents an invaluable source of information on cowpea improvement for agricultural researchers, administrators and funding agencies around the world.