Calles T., Makkar H.P.S. (eds) Pulses and their by-products as animal feed

FAO, Rome, 2017. — 206 p. — ISBN 978-92-5-109915-5.Pulses are an important crop group in the cropping patterns of several developing countries. They are of particular importance for food and nutrition security, particularly in low-income countries. In these countries they are the major source of protein often consumed in the diet along with staples like wheat or rice. Pulses help to improve nutrition and thus health and contribute to reduce poverty and hunger. Moreover, pulses – and legume crops in general – are key components of sustainable, climate-resilient cropping systems.
Pulses further play an important role in providing valuable by-products for animal feeding and thus indirectly contribute to food security. There is considerable potential to use crop by-products (e.g. straw and other plant parts) left after harvesting the seeds as ruminant feed. Other by-products such as chunies (a mix of seed coats and endosperm fractions) and husks, obtained during processing of pulses for human consumption, are also good animal feeds. These by-products are valuable sources of protein and energy. They do not compete with human food, but contribute to decreasing cereals and soybean levels in the diets of livestock in intensive livestock production systems. They are used by smallholder farmers, particularly in Asia, in extensive or mixed crop-livestock production systems to extenuate the feed shortage. Also their feeding provides important economic, social and environmental benefits by saving grains used for feeding for animals.Foreword
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and acronymsBeans
Common bean
Lima bean
Scarlet runner bean
Tepary bean
Adzuki bean
Mung bean
Mungo bean
Rice bean
Moth bean
Broad bean
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Hyacinth bean
Jack bean
Winged bean
Guar bean
Velvet bean
African yam bean
Bambara bean
Pea
Chickpea
Cowpea
Pigeon pea
Lentil
Common vetch
Lupins
A synthesisAppendixes
Major international research centres working on various pulse crops
Global production of major pulse crops