Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortGuizotia abyssinica
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | herb | Physiology | |
| Habit | erect | Category | forage/pasture, materials, medicinals & aromatic |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | grown on small scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 18 | 26 | 11 | 34 | Soil texture | medium | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 1000 | 1300 | 500 | 3000 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | - | - | - | - | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 3000 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 5.5 | 6.5 | 5 | 7.5 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) |
| Light intensity | very bright | very bright | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), subtropical humid (Cf), subtropical dry summer (Cs), subtropical dry winter (Cw), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | no input | Killing temp. early growth | no input |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | Crop cycle | 90 | 150 | |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| sole cropping | ||||
| inter-cropping | finger millet, castor, groundnut, soybean, sorghum, mungbean, chickpea, sunflower | |||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| material | lipids/oil & fats | seeds |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | entire plant |
| food & beverage | protein | seeds |
| food & beverage | vitamins | fruits |
| environmental | soil improvers | entire plant |
| environmental | living fence | entire plant |
| medicinal | respiratory applications | seedlings |
| medicinal | genitourinary system applications | seeds |
| fuels | petroleum substitutes/alcohol | seeds |