Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,314 Pearl Millet Grain Medicinal In African traditional medicine the grain has been applied to treat chest disorders, leprosy, blennorrhoea and poisonings, and the ground grain as an anthelmintic for children. 8,430
1,315 Pearl Millet Root Medicinal A root decoction is drunk to treat jaundice. 8,430
1,316 Pearl Millet Flower Medicinal The vapour of inflorescence extracts is inhaled for respiratory diseases in children. 8,430
1,317 Pearl Millet Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) Outside Africa and India pearl millet is mostly grown as a green fodder crop for silage, hay making and grazing. 8,430
1,318 Pearl Millet Whole Environmental Following the discovery that pearl millet can suppress root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus penetrans) it is increasingly being used as an alternative to soil fumigation in tobacco and potato cropping in Canada. 8,430
1,319 Soybean Seed Food The seeds furnish one of the world's most important sources of oil and protein, they can be eaten as they are in soups, stews etc, though they are also very commonly used in the preparation of various meat substitutes. The dried seed can be ground into a flour and added to cereal flours or used for making noodles etc. 8,432
1,320 Soybean Seed Beverages The seed is also used to make soya milk. 8,432
1,321 Soybean Pod Food The young seedpods are cooked and used like French beans. 8,432
1,322 Soybean Seed Oil (Food) An edible semi-drying oil is obtained from the seed. It is cooked or can be used as a dressing in salads etc and for manufacture of margarine and shortening. 8,432
1,323 Soybean Leaf Food Young leaves - raw or cooked. 8,432
1,324 Soybean Seed Medicinal The fermented seed is weakly diaphoretic and stomachic. It is used in the treatment of colds, fevers and headaches, insomnia, irritability and a stuffy sensation in the chest. Soybean is listed as a major starting material for stigmasterol, once known as an antistiffness factor. Sitosterol, also a soy by-product, has been used to replace diosgenin in some antihypertensive drugs. 8,432
1,325 Soybean Leaf Medicinal The bruised leaves are applied to snakebite. 8,432
1,326 Soybean Flower Medicinal The flowers are used in the treatment of blindness and opacity of the cornea. 8,432
1,327 Soybean Stem Medicinal The ashes of the stems are applied to granular haemorrhoids or fungus growths on the anus. 8,432
1,328 Soybean Pod Medicinal The immature seedpods are chewed to a pulp and applied to corneal and smallpox ulcers. 8,432
1,329 Soybean Whole Environmental The plant is sometimes grown as a green manure. 8,432
1,330 Soybean Seed Industrial The seed contains up to 20% of an edible semi-drying oil. The oil is used industrially in the manufacture of paints, linoleum, oilcloth, printing inks, soap, insecticides, and disinfectants. 8,432
1,331 Soybean Plant Fiber Fibre The straw can be used to make paper, stiffer than that made from wheat straw. 8,432
1,332 Soybean Seed Oil (Fuel) The oil from the seeds can be used as a diesel fuel. 8,432
1,333 Sorghum Grain Food In the simplest food preparations, the whole grain is boiled (to produce a food resembling rice), roasted (usually at the dough stage), or popped (like maize). More often the grain is ground or pounded into flour, often after hulling. Sorghum flour is used to make thick or thin porridge, pancake, dumplings or couscous, opaque and cloudy beers and non-alcoholic fermented beverages. 8,433