Evaluate the Potential of Mung Bean Production in Southern Manitoba

Mung bean is a small-seeded legume and can potentially be grown in most regions adapted for soybean and dry bean. Thus, mung bean may be suitable to southern Manitoba. In 2007 and again in 2009 the Pea Breeding program at the Morden Research Station undertook exploratory trials of mung bean. We introduced many elite breeding lines from China and grew them in Morden. Majority of the introduced lines reached maturity and set seeds quite well in these exploratory trials. The study demonstrated that mung bean can be successfully grown in southern Manitoba and a few genotypes were identified that could be grown as commercial varieties or used as breeding materials.