Pigeon Pea or kadios as locally known is an erect, branched and shrubby legume. The small pods are eaten as vegetable white still green or young. The dried seeds are also eaten as vegetable and cooked with other vegetables, fish, shrimps or meat.
The leaves are pounded and applied as treatment for sores. The juice passed from the leaves mixed with salt as given as medicine for jaundice.
Plant 2 to 4 seeds in a hill spaced at 1.5 meters apart between hills in the row or furrow, and 1.5 meters apart between furrows.
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