Benefits of planting cowpea crop as fodder in summer

  • During the summer season, the problem of green fodder for livestock increases, to avoid this situation the livestock owner should sow cowpea.
  • Cowpea is used as a nutritious fodder for animals
  • Cowpea is the quickest growing pulses fodder crop,
  • The cowpea crop is more nutritious and fully digestible and as grass is mixed with it during sowing which also increases its nutritional value.
  • Cowpea is also served as a vegetable and as the availability of green vegetables is reduced during the rainy days, the production of cowpea for green vegetables brings good profits to the farmers.
  • As cowpea is a pulses crop, it greatly increases the availability of the nutrient called nitrogen in the soil.
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