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Lablab Bean: Lablab Purpureus (Syn Dolichos Lablab, Lablab Niger)

The document discusses the Lablab bean, including its origins in Southeast Asia and Africa, its uses as a vegetable, pulse, animal forage and feed, and its cultivation requirements and pests. It notes that Lablab beans are good sources of protein, fiber and the amino acid lysine.

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Lablab Bean: Lablab Purpureus (Syn Dolichos Lablab, Lablab Niger)

The document discusses the Lablab bean, including its origins in Southeast Asia and Africa, its uses as a vegetable, pulse, animal forage and feed, and its cultivation requirements and pests. It notes that Lablab beans are good sources of protein, fiber and the amino acid lysine.

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LABLAB BEAN

Bonavist, Egyptian Kidney Bean, Hyacinth Bean, Indian Butter Bean Lablab purpureus (Syn Dolichos lablab, Lablab niger) ECHO PLANT INFORMATION SHEET
ORIGIN Lablab Bean is generally considered to have originated in Southeast Asia. However, some authorities place its ori gin in Africa where it has been known since the eighth century. Presently, it is widely cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics. USES This bean may be grown as a vegetable or pulse for human consumption, or as animal forage or feed. The young pods, leaves and flowers are eaten as a cooked vegetable. The cooked, dried seeds, a good source of protein, are processed into bean cakes, fermented as tempeh or before cooking, sprouted and eaten fresh. The palatability of lablab surpasses that of velvet beans or jack beans. Seed sprouts can be eaten like those from mung beans. Lablab plants may be grazed by cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats. Young dried plant material may be used as animal feed. Lablab Bean green material also can be made into silage. Lablab Bean varieties such as Highworth, Rongai, and White have been used successfully as cover crops to suppress weed growth and retard soil erosion and as a green manure. Lablab retains some green growth during droughts af fording farmers harvest materials to supplant a lack of grazing opportunities during dry seasons. In Honduras, Lablab has been intercropped successfully with maize (corn) providing sources of both vegetable food and animal feed especially during periods of drought. In the Sudan it has been interplanted with both sorghum and maize. CULTIVATION Lablab Bean is capable of growing in a wide range of climatic conditions and soil types, depending upon the variety chosen. Lablabs have been grown from sea level to 2,000 m (6,000 ft) in tropical regions. It tolerates drought periods well but has been grown successfully in climates ranging from 2002500 mm (8100 in) annual rainfall. Lablabs prefer welldrained soils with a pH range from 4.47.8. Lablab has been grown both in nutrientpoor soils and those high in some nutrients such as aluminum. Growers are cautioned to delay planting if it is interplanted with corn under favorable growing conditions as it will cover the corn plants retarding corn growth and production. In pure stands, plant lablabs 10 m (30 ft) apart to allow plenty of room for the spreading vines to grow. HARVESTING AND SEED PRODUCTION When planted early in the growing season, Lablab Beans start bearing pods in 6070 days and continue for 90100 days. For use as a pulse or to save seed for the following year, the lablab seed should be allowed to mature approximately 150210 days after planting. PESTS AND DISEASES The effects of a bacterial blight disease (Xanthomonas phaseoli) that in humid weather conditions causes severe defoliation is lessened by growing lablab intermixed with another bean species, Phaseolus trilobus. The agent of anthracnose, Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, may cause crop damage in India. Pod boring larvae are reported pests in In dia. Strain HE111 of Bacillus cereus var. thuringensis has been reported as an effective agent against some of the podbor ing larvae. In Puerto Rico, the bean leaf beetle, Ceratoma ruficornis, is reported as a serious pest. Bruchid beetle larvae, Callosobruchus spp. attack seeds in storage and in the field. COOKING AND NUTRITION Although the Red and White varieties reportedly are safely eaten as green pods, the mature seeds of lablabs generally are sources of trypsin inhibitor and cyanogenic glucoside toxins and these seeds need to be cooked thoroughly before eating them. Dry lablab beans generally can be substituted for other dry beans in recipes. Lablab beans are good sources of the amino acid, lysine, and as such complement the generally low lysine content of maize (corn) diets. Lablab beans contain 2028% crude protein. The green pods likewise are a good protein source as well as a valuable source of fiber.

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