Word: cowpeas
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...introduced the country's first silage system, taught sanitation, farm management, building construction and irrigation, brought high-yield corn (50 bu. per acre) from Indonesia, improved pasture and foliage, showed his charges how to use commercial fertilizer, planted grain and sweet sorghum, introduced the Velvet bean and the cowpea (for soil improvement). In his own acre-plus garden he demonstrated to once dubious Thailanders that pineapples and bananas can be grown well in poor soil, even cultivated tomatoes, collards, okra, eggplant, yellow squash, sweet corn and lettuce...
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