Faba bean being incredible and crop complete food, unfortunately some part of world including India, it is still underutilized crop and not fully exploited so far, though it is seen as an agronomically viable alternative crop to cereal, with a potential of fixing free nitrogen upto 300 kg N ha-1. There is need to improve its anti-nutritional factors to make it more acceptable to other countries. An assessment has been made for boosting area production and acceptability with technological backup keeping in view the enormous potential for food and nutritional security. The crop is known by many names, most of which refer to a particular subgroup rather than the whole species. Despite of all good qualities, the major bottleneck is anti-nutritional element, taste and aroma.
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