The seeds of mung beans are important foodstuffs, as well as important raw materials and important medicinal herbs for the food industry and brewing industry. Its pod shell, bean cake, straw is rich in protein and other nutrients, is a variety of livestock feed. If used as green feed, or made of hay, is an excellent protein feed, it is determined that the mung bean pods contain 8% crude protein, 1.9% fat, calcium 2.46%. Its chemical composition, digestibility and nutritional value of powder residue is shown in Table 73-1, 73-2, 73-3.

Cultivation points

Mung bean emergence when the cotyledon leaves out of the soil, before sowing should be well groomed, and have a good moisture content. The sowing period is not strict, can be sown in spring, can also be planted in summer. In tropical and subtropical areas, three seasons can be planted in a year. Seeding quantity is 1-1.5kg per mu, - generally 8000-15000 plants per mu. Do green forage can be appropriate to increase the amount of seeding, 2-2.5kg per mu. mung bean can be single crop, can also be intercropped with corn, sorghum, cotton, sweet potato, cereals and other crops, but also in the fruit trees, forest nursery rows, ridges, gaps in the ground planting. In recent years, mung bean has been increasing in area as a filler crop. It can be planted after the wheat harvest, making it a good way to rotate crops with wheat.

Table 73-1 Chemical composition of mung bean pods Analyzed by the Institute of Animal Husbandry, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. (%)

Table 73-2 Digestibility of Mung Bean Seedlings Quoted from Chinese Table of Feed Composition and Nutritive Value, 1985, Agricultural Publishing House.

Table 73-3 Nutritional value of mung bean meal residue quoted from Chinese Word Ingredient Composition and Nutritional Value Table, 1985, Agricultural Publishing House.

To collect seeds for the purpose of mung bean, we must timely plow and weed, cultivate the soil to prevent collapse, drought should be flooded, waterlogged to drain, and timely fertilization, especially phosphorus and potassium fertilizer is particularly important. Mung bean pests and diseases are more, such as leaf spot disease, root and stem rot, rust, powdery mildew; soybean aphid, vegetable aphid, bean wild borer, red spider, mung bean weevil, etc., should be controlled in time.

To green feed or collect hay of green beans, can be utilized in the flowering period or harvested, dried and preserved. It can also be used as silage with corn.

74.Light-leaved Campsis

Vicia villosa Roth var. glabrescens Koch

(Gu Rongshen)

Alias

Light-leaved violet-flowered campsis, dilute hairy campsis