vahrehvah
sanjay thumma Vahchef with Indian food videos inspires home cooks with new recipes every day.


Cow peas


recipe image

Everything about Cow peas :

owpeas are one of the most important food legume crops in the semi-arid tropics covering Asia, Africa, southern Europe and Central and South America. A drought tolerant and warm weather crop, cowpeas are well-adapted to the drier regions of the tropics, where other food legumes do not perform well. It also has the useful ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen through its root nodules, and it grows well in poor soils with more than 85% sand and with less than 0.2% organic matter and low levels of phosphorus. In addition, it is shade tolerant, and therefore, compatible as an intercrop with maize, millet, sorghum, sugarcane, and cotton. This makes cowpea an important component of traditional intercropping systems, especially in the complex and elegant subsistence farming systems of the dry savannas in sub-Saharan Africa.[1] Research in Ghana found that selecting early generations of cowpea crops to increase yield is not an effective strategy. Francis Padi from the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute in Tamale, Ghana, writing in Crop Science, suggests other methods such as bulk breeding are more efficient in developing high-yield varieties.[2]

Cow peas also known as

Language Ingredient Name
Bangali Barbati 
Gujarati Chora 
Hindi Lobia 
Kannada Alasande 
Kashmiri  
Malyalam Payar 
Marathi Chavli 
Oriya chani 
Tamil Karamani 
Telugu Bobbarlu 


Be the first to know about Our Recipes and Foods: Subscribe to Newsletter