Pigeon peas

Pigeon peas or tur plant is an annual crop, cultivated for its sweet tasting legumes, which is consumed as a popular staple diet in many countries. It belongs to the family of ‘Fabaceae’ and is also known as Cajanus Cajan. This plant is a single, woody stemmed plant reaches about 4 meters in height and has a sophisticated root system that it makes it a drought resistant type. Pigeon pea plant has multi colored flowers with most of them being yellow colored. Mostly cultivated as secondary or mixed crop, pigeon pea is cultivated in around 25 countries of the world.