Ethiopia: Soybean crucial to ensure food security

Food science professionals agricultural researchers say that soybean is a grain legume that is very nutritious and contains on average 40 percent protein. It is gaining ground internationally due to its multiuse use as human food, livestock feed, manufacturing purposes, and more recently, as a source of bio-energy. Moreover, soybean contains 20 percent non-cholesterol oil and its fortified foodstuffs are considerably low-priced than other sources of high-quality protein. It very well may be utilized directly for nourishment in the family unit or handled for soy milk, cooking oil and a scope of different items including newborn child weaning sustenance. Also, the poultry sector industry uses soybean for feed production. Ethiopian Institutes of Agricultural Research, Jimma Agricultural Research, National lowland oil crops research said soybean is becoming economical important oil crop in Ethiopia. The process of plant growth and development is important to the successful adaptation ...