Comparative study of some cultivars of broad bean (Vicia faba L.)

Abstract

The broad bean is a vegetable plant known and appreciated in the peasant households of our country, where different local populations and a limited variety of homologated cultivars are cultivated. Statistics in our country do not mention the species as being of major importance to the population, although its nutritional and agrotechnical value are well known. The aim of this paper is to conduct a study on the main biometric and agroproductivity characteristics of some broad bean cultivars. The results obtained highlight the high variability of the cultivars studied in terms of plant weight and height dynamics, the number of pods per plant, the number of seeds per pod, the number of seeds per plant, the average weight of a broad bean seed and the average weight of seeds/plant.