Investigating The Effects Of Two Cowpea (vignaunguiculata L Walp) Leaf Harvesting Intervals On Grain Yield.

Abstract  Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata L ) has a variety of uses in Zimbabwe. The crop can be used as food, leaves as vegetable for human and stems as fodder for livestock. Maximising both leaf, grain and the above ground biomass yield of the dual purpose cowpea is one of the ways to improve food security in the country as well as nutritious hay in winter for livestock thus ensuring sustainability in agriculture which is being threatened by climate change. A research was carried out to find out the effects of three leaf harvesting intervals on the dual purpose use of cowpea.The trial was carried …