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- Title
Potencialidades del caupí para la rápida compensación de pérdidas de la producción de frijol por desastres naturales.
- Authors
Fernández, Edilio Quintero; Gil Díaz, Víctor D.; García Hernández, José Carlos; Valdés, Gudelia Rodríguez; Pérez, Lourdes Fernández
- Abstract
Caupí (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is a kind of grain of legume family which contents a high nutritious level that equals, and it even overcomes in some aspects, to the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) one. Common bean constitutes the main protein vegetable source for Cuban people, due to predilection and habit acquired by people through different generations. The tropical hurricanes and the extreme droughts constitute the main natural disasters that can affect the common bean production. The most vulnerable plantings for the effect of the hurricanes are those that seed is carried out during the months of September and October. Drought affectations can be presented in the plantations carried out in the whole seeding season of the bean, but the most susceptible are those carried out in November, December and January. The investigations performed in the available cowpea germoplasm in the Center of Agricultural Investigations (CIAP) of the Central University of Las Villas, during the last years, have demonstrated that cowpea crop is efficient and productive during the whole year (mainly in the period March-September), that it is to much tolerant than the common bean so much to the stress for drought and for excess of soil humidity. Besides, there are varieties with a high productive potential in very short seeding-harvest cycles, some of them with 55 to 60 days from seeding to harvesting. It is concluded that this species gathers qualities to compensate the possible losses in the production of common bean as a consequence of natural disasters.
- Subjects
CUBA; COWPEA growing; LEGUMES -- Nutrition; CROP growth; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Revista Centro Agricola, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
0253-5785
- Publication type
Article