Pigeon pea

Scientific name: Cajanus cajan
Family: Fabaceae

Growth stages	Pests  For weeds and diseases please see further down on this page. For rodents, snails and slugs please click here
Seed
Sown seeds	Ants Seedcorn maggot
Seedling Stage
Stem	Bean fly
Vegetative Stage
Stems	Bean fly
Leaves	Aphids Leaf miner Thrips
Reproductive Stage
Flowers	Aphids Bean pod borer Corn earworm Leaf miner Thrips
Maturation stage
Pods, Beans	Lygus bugs Stink bug

Weeds

Grasses
Sedges
Broadleaf

Diseases

Fungal
Bacterial
Viral

Agro-ecology

Pigeon pea as an intercrop performs well when planted together with two rows of cereals (e.g. sorghum, millets, cotton or groundnut). Perennial pigeon pea varieties continue to grow and protect the soil even after the intercrops have been harvested. Pigeon pea, particularly the tall genotypes, is difficult to cultivate. As a multipurpose crop, it is well-known in India and Africa but also grows well in Indonesia and the Philippines (CABI, 2000). Pigeon pea is suitable in small farm. It grows well as a hedge crop and along the bunds of rice fields (IRRI, 2001).

External links

• FAO. Cajanus cajan. http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/DATA/PF000150.HTM
• ICARDA. Field guide to lentil diseases and insect pests. http://www.icarda.cgiar.org/Publications/Field_Guides/Lentil/Lentil.Html
• University of California. How to manage pests: Dry beans. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.beans.html#ABOUT
• Purdue University. Peas and beans. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/rhodcv/hort410/peas/peas.htm
• CGIAR. Pigeon pea. http://www.cgiar.org/impact/research/pigeonpea.html

References

• CABI. (2000): Crop protection compendium. Global module, 2nd edition. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.
• ICIPE. (2003): Development of biocontrol-based management of Helicoverpa armigera in eastern and southern Africa. 2000-2003 ICIPE Scientific Report. International Center for Insect Physiology and Entomology, Nairobi, Kenya.