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Legumes
Some pulses used in
East Africa
- Dolichos
beans (fiwi bean)
- Field
peas
- Pigeon
peas (mbaazi)
- Cowpeas
(kunde beans)
- Maharagwe
beans
- Soya
beans (introduced)
Reference: French, M.
H. (1937). "Some notes on the common
foodstuffs used in the diet of East African
natives." East African Medical Journal
13: 374-378.
Black eye
beans
Protein supplies in Uganda in 1962
About one sixth of the total of the 6,3
million cultivated acres in Uganda were
occupied by grain legumes, of which groundnuts
and kidney beans were the most important,
followed by cow peas, pigeon peas and
field peas. During the 1960s groundnuts
were a valuable source of food and provided
people with an income through cash cropping.
In the areas of good rainfall they supplemented
cooking bananas, sweet potatoes and cassava.
In drier parts the chief staple was finger
millet. Every district grew legumes and
staples in proportion depended on climatic
conditions, the quality of the local soils
and tribal preferences. The soy bean could
be a rich source of protein but attempts
to establish the crop on a large scale
in Uganda failed.
 PDF:
Protein
supply in Uganda
Proteins available from local sources
for Uganda in 1958 and 1959
Pigeon peas and sesame were a very important
protein source in the Northern Province.
Beans and groundnuts were important everywhere
except from the Western province.
The most striking differences between
1951 and the later years were:
- Large increase in meat and smaller increase
in milk
- Very large increase in fish
- Moderate increase in beans, groundnuts
and cassava
- Large increase in maize, sorghum, cooking
bananas and sweet potatoes
The difference between 1958 and 1959
include:
- Generalized increases of beef and fish
- Large increases of beans, mixed, in
Buganda and Eastern Province, of sweet
potatoes in Eastern Province and of pigeon
peas in Northern Province;
PDF:
Protein-calorie
malnutrition in Uganda, II-Busoga District,
III-Bukedi District, IV-Bugisu District,
V-Ankole district
Created
by Verena Raschke 2005
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