HIGHLY PRIZED PULSE 



Are. 



Mixed 

 CulUratkm. 



PHA8EOLU8 



MUNOO 



Col ti ration 



Crops, 1882, i., 39-40, t. x. The wud (or urd), dord, tireorai-kalai, mdth- 

 ramra, udid, adad, patchay-pyre, minu-mulu, hasaru, etc. There 

 has been some confusion regarding feat nomrnclature of /*. Mungo and 

 the Hprcios which follows /'. r<t<tmtn*. tin. i hictly to Roxburgh having 

 transposed the original Linnean names. /*. i//////. /"/ i the present 

 .plant, urftd or urd ; while /*. rtn/intn*. /.inn., is the plant known n 

 vernacular as mwngr. There are two varieties of udid, one with large black 

 seeds, the other with >!n.ill--r gfoanidh seeds, and these correspond very 

 possibly with /'. Mnn</n proper and tin- \.r:> /;. ////.///// 



Area. f.'n/ is the most highly prized of the pulses of this genus, and is 

 largely cultivated in India, sometimes even in green manuring (see p. 225). 

 Unfortunately the crop area is not uiiiformlv and continuously recorded, 

 so that only isolated quotations can be cited. In Bombay (including 

 Sind) it occupied in 1905-6, 223,281 acres, but it would appear that e 

 the wrong scientific names have been us.-d in the official publications of 

 Bombay (and in Mollison's Textbook Ind. Agri.) for this and the next pulse, 

 or that the names mag, mung and udid have the opposite significations in 

 Bombay to those prevalent in the rest of India. In the Panjab in 1904-6 

 mung and mash together occupied 443,307 acres, and in 1906-7, 563,364 acres. 



According to Duthie and Fuller, udid is grown commonly as a subordi- 

 nate crop with millet or cotton, but more often by itself. Sowing takes 

 place at the commencement of the rains, and the crop ripens, one variety 

 in August and September, another in October and November. When 

 grown alone it is sown broadcast at the rate of 4 to 6 seers per acre. 

 It prefers the heavier classes of soil, and is thus unlike mung, which 

 prefers lighter soil. In this respect, it will be seen, Mollison holds a 

 slightly different opinion, since he believes that both beans prefer heavy 

 soils. Its average outturn when grown alone is about 5 maunds grain per 

 acre with three times this weight of straw. In Bombay, Mollison states 

 that udid is grown generally subordinate to judr (Snriihtnn rn/t/trre) or 

 other cereals. It is a very important crop in the black soils of Khandesh, 

 and is grown fairly extensively in Nasik, Satara, Belgaum, Thana, and 

 Ahmadabad. Of the total area during 1905-6, Khandesh had 106,870 ; 

 Satara 33,673 ; Nasik 22,200 ; and Belgaum 14,689 acres. The total rabi 

 crop came to 2,809 acres, of which 1,482 acres were in Kanara and 731 

 acres in Kolaba. It is raised mostly as a rain crop, subordinate to judr, 

 but to a small extent alone in the kharif season, and over a considerable 

 area in the rabi, chiefly as a second crop after rice. 



Uses. The green pods are eaten as a vegetable and the ripe grain is 

 the most esteemed of all pulses in India. It is boiled and eaten whole or 

 after being sphX in the form of ddl Parched and ground to flour it is 

 made into balls with spice, or is eaten in the form of a sort of porridge or 

 baked into bread it is the chief constituent of the wafer biscuit known in 

 Bombay as pdpad. In the Panjab it is used in the form of two preparations 

 known as bari and sepa. Both are prepared by soaking the seed for a couple 

 of days in slightly warm water, then crushing to a pulp, drying and mixing 

 with ghi or buttermilk. Both the grain and the straw are valuable as horse Fodder. 

 and cattle FOOD. MEDICINALLY this pulse is highly valued by the Hindus 



[Cf. Sen, Kept. Agri. Slot. Dacca, 1889, 48 ; Banerjei. Agri. Cuttack, 1893. 

 79-80 ; The Bower Manuscript (Hoernle, transl.), 1893-7, 187 ; Panjdb Dist. Oaz. ; 

 Rice, Mysore Oaz., 1897, i., 120-1 ; Basil, Cult, of Pulse Crops in Assam Valley. 

 in Agri. Ledg., 1903, No. 5, 127-31 ; Leather, Agri. Ledg., 1903, No. 7, 152, 155, 

 182 ; Joret, Les PI. dans L'Antiq., etc., 1904, ii., 248.] 



881 56 



Two Crop*. 



Pood. 



Parched. 

 Porridge. 

 Braid. 



Medicine. 



