Approximately 40 000 hectares are planted to crops such as sweet sorghum, cowpeas and sunflower. Maize, cassava, cowpeas and rice are grown for domestic consumption. Other crops are oil seeds, groundnuts, sesame, cowpeas and okra, and mangoes, citrus and melons. Yields of wheat, sorghum, cassava, and cowpeas also increased in these countries. Smaller quantities of cowpeas, beans, and other pulses are also grown. Peas, chickpeas, white beans, cowpeas or green beans are sometimes also added. These primary staples are supplemented with beans, cabbage, spinach, onions and cowpeas. Crops attacked by this aphid include brassicas, cucurbits, beetroot, peanut, cotton, cowpeas, chickpeas and cardamom. For example, intercropping of cowpeas between rows of cassava. Other important crops are cassava, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, and tobacco. This virus has been observed to infect only plant cells, specifically Cowpeas. The main crops grown are maize, cotton, sorghum, cowpeas, peanuts, cassava and potato. He also published six bulletins on sweet potatoes, five on cotton, and four on cowpeas. Many different kinds of beans are grown, including cowpeas, ditloo, and letlhodi. In Iraq its name is "" () meaning "red cowpeas".