Cowpea Found to be Beneficial for Farmers Around Gambia
An Agricultural Research study has revealed, especially to the farming community in the Gambia and beyond, that the use of Cowpea - vigna unguiculata - as cover crop is potential for soil nutrient for sustainable maize and millet production.
Growers of these crops should therefore, no longer be worried about both the non availability and the cost of nitrogen fertiliser as this simple experiment can give them the desired dose of nutrient their maze and millet require when either is grown with cowpea.
Maize, millet and other cereal crops are first of all planted during their cultivation period two to three weeks before cowpea or other cover crops such as groundnuts including Bambara nuts one planted.
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