توضیحات
Vigna umbellata, previously Phaseolus calcaratus, is a warm-season annual vine legume with yellow flowers and small edible beans. It is commonly called ricebean or rice bean. To date, it is little known, little researched and little exploited. It is regarded as a minor food and fodder crop and is often grown as intercrop or mixed crop with maize (Zea mays), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) or cowpea (V. unguiculata), as well as a sole crop in the uplands, on a very limited area. Like the other Asiatic Vigna species, ricebean is a fairly short-lived warm-season annual. Grown mainly as a dried pulse, it is also important as a fodder, a green manure and a vegetable. Ricebean is most widely grown as an intercrop, particularly of maize, throughout Indo-China and extending into southern China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. In the past it was widely grown as lowland crop on residual soil water after the harvest of long-season rice, but it has been displaced to a great extent where shorter duration rice varieties are grown. Ricebean grows well on a range of soils. It establishes rapidly and has the potential to produce large amounts of nutritious animal fodder and high quality grain
Ricebean plays an important role in human, animal and soil health improvement. Ricebean is good sources of protein, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids and minerals, and the dried seeds make an excellent addition to a cereal-based diet
لوبیا برنجی گونه ای لوبیا استوایی گرمسیری است که در شرق آسیا استفاده خوراکی میشود
دانه های این لوبیا کوچک و سیاه رنگ هستند. رنگ سیاه کمیاب است و رنگ قهوه ای آن بیشتر در بازار موجود است.
این لوبیا حدودا هم اندازه دانه های برنج است به همین خاطر اسم بین المللی آن لوبیا برنجی است و الا طعم برنج ندارد.
گیاه آن حالت پیچکی دارد و گلهای زرد رنگی دارد
معمولا به عنوان یک گیاه سریع بازده که میتواند در عرض 3 تا 6 ماه از کاشت بذر به محصول برسد کاشته میشود
لوبیا برنجی حاوی پروتئین، آمینو اسید، اسیدهای چرب ضروری برای بدن و مواد معدنی است و خوردن آن در وعده های غذایی برای سلامتی مفید است
