A new variety of cowpea (beans) developed to improve yield for farmers has shown much promise in demonstration farms across Adamawa State. The new genetically modified cowpea, planted for the first ...

Benoit Joseph Batieno was born and raised in a modest Burkinabe family whose patriarch was a soldier. As the son of a soldier, it is expected that he would have been at the forefront in a conventional ...

Researchers at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have developed a simple method for increasing cowpea yield and protein content of seeds. Cowpea is an important crop in drier ...

Cowpea farming is popular in Kenya due to its high nutrition value, short harvest period, and hardiness. The cowpea is also known as the black-eyed pea. In Kenya, it is popularly known as Kunde and is ...

Farmers in Benue State are expecting a mixed outcome from their cowpea harvest as the rainy season gradually comes to an end, allowing farmers to soon begin activities in the fields. Our correspondent ...

Joeva Rock's research has been previously funded by the Fulbright Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Schmidt Family Foundation, the ...

ABUJA – AFTER 10 years of placing ban on bean exports from Nigeria by the European Union, EU, due to high chemical residues, farmers under the auspices of the Cowpea and Beans Farmers, Processors, and ...

ABUJA - AFTER 10 years of placing ban on bean exports from Nigeria by the European Union, EU, due to high chemical residues, farmers under the auspices of the Cowpea and Beans Farmers, Processors, and ...