Cowpea Aliases and 2020 Price Trend Analysis
Cowpea is one of the vegetables we commonly eat in daily life, cultivated all over the country, with relatively high requirements for the growing environment. Cowpea is rich in certain nutritional value and has the effects of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the stomach. Besides tasting good when eaten fresh, cowpea is also very appetizing when pickled into sour vegetables, especially when stir-fried with a bit of minced meat, it is very fragrant. Let us take a look below at what other names cowpea has and how its 2020 price trend is going.
I. What other names does cowpea have?
Cowpea's other names are horn bean, ginger bean, and belt bean. It is an annual twining, herbaceous vine or nearly erect herbaceous plant. Cowpea contains protein that is beneficial to human digestion, many kinds of vitamins, a moderate amount of carbohydrates, and so on.
According to length, cowpea can be divided into two major categories: long podded cowpea and short podded cowpea. Varieties of the long podded cowpea type have thick, tender, and crisp flesh and are mostly cultivated as vegetables. Varieties of the short podded cowpea type have very thin pod skins and a lot of fiber, so they taste very hard; generally their seeds are eaten, and they are mostly grown as grain.
According to their growth habits, cowpea types can be divided into three types: climbing, semi-climbing, and dwarf.
II. How is the 2020 cowpea price trend going?
It is now January 2020, and as the Spring Festival approaches, cowpea prices overall show an upward trend. However, cowpea prices differ from place to place, and prices are affected by factors such as place of origin, market conditions, cowpea quality, yield, and variety.
According to relevant websites, we can learn that recent cowpea price changes in various places are as follows:
At the Zhougudui Agricultural Products Wholesale Market in Hefei, Anhui, the price of cowpea is 2.5 yuan per jin; at the Shuitun Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market in Changping, Beijing, the cowpea price is 3 yuan per jin; at the Dayanglu Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market in Chaoyang District, Beijing, the cowpea price is 7.5 yuan per jin; at the Beijing Dayanglu Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market, the cowpea price is 7 yuan per jin; at the Fujian Fuding Min-Zhe Border Agricultural Trade Center Market, the cowpea price is 3 yuan per jin; at the Hebei Handan (Weixian) Tianxian Fruit Agricultural Trade Wholesale Market, the cowpea price is 4.5 yuan per jin; at the Dongwayao Wholesale Market in Hohhot, the cowpea price is 8 yuan per jin. At the Hubei Jingzhou Lianghu Plain Agricultural Products Trading and Logistics Center, the cowpea price is 6 yuan per jin; at the Hunan Changde Ganlusi Vegetable Wholesale Market, the cowpea price is 5 yuan per jin.
When choosing cowpea, everyone should also pay attention to whether it is fresh. Those whose color is dark green are generally relatively fresh and taste a bit crisper. It is better to choose ones that are uniform in thickness, glossy, full in the grains, and not attacked by pests. If the beans inside the cowpea bulge out very large, it means the cowpea is relatively old, very dry inside, without moisture, and hard to chew when eaten. If you feel the cowpea with your hand and its pod is relatively elastic and also relatively tender, then the quality is good.