varieties so classified and given below are also used as vegetables, with their beans in pods while young cooked in whole cuisines and sold for the purpose; for example black eyed beans, lima beans and Toororpigeon peas are thus eaten as fresh green beans cooked as part of a meal. Pulses are important food crops due to their high protein. Like many leguminous crops, pulses play a key role in crop rotation due to their ability to fix nitrogen.
Pakistani and India are world's largest producer and