Soy is the highest protein crop. Due to its high fodder advantages, soy is becoming more and more widespread every year in many areas of our country.
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Soybean grain contains 36-48% of a complete protein, balanced by amino acids, 20-26 - fat and more than 20% carbohydrates. Soy is an indispensable forage crop. In the oilcake - 38-39% protein, 5.5% fat, from 10 centners of grain get 7-7.5 centners of meal, in which 40% of digestible protein, 1.4% fat. 100 kg of green soybean mass is equal to 21 feed. units
Botanical and biological features
Soybean is an annual, highly branched bean plant that forms a bush up to 1.5 m high. The leaves are triple, the flowers are very small, white and light purple in the axils of the leaves. Beans (pods) contain from 1 to 5 oval seeds of yellow, green, brown and black colors, depending on the variety.
Soybean is a heat-, moisture-, and photophilous plant characterized by slow growth and a long vegetative stage (100-150 days depending on the variety and general growing conditions). It is demanding on maximum soil fertility. All this significantly limits the cultivation areas of this crop. In Russia, soybeans are grown in the Far East and in the Krasnodar Territory.