Staking practice in cowpea

  • Pole types/Climbing type’s varieties are visually trailed to bower or tiles made of bamboo poles and coir or plastic wire.
  • Erect supports with wooden sticks for trailing plants to bower when plants start vining.
  • Nipping of excess vegetative growth is a common practice for including flowering and fruiting in bush and semi trailing cowpea varsities especially when there is rain during flowering and fruiting phase.

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