All Pulses

The dry edible legumes: beans, peas, lentils and their relatives, grown primarily for the dry seed rather than for oil. Soybean and peanut are held out of this group and placed under Oilcrops instead, matching FAO own classification, since both are grown and traded chiefly as oil crops even though botanically they are legumes too. Belongs here: a legume crop whose harvested product is the dry seed itself, eaten as the seed. Does not belong here: a legume grown chiefly for its oil content, held under Oilcrops, or a forage legume grown to feed livestock rather than people, held under Forage Crops.