Saharan Africa (SSA) with potential to be a commercial crop owing to its wide range of uses
as food, feed, and industrial raw material. Soybean was first introduced to SSA by Chinese
traders in the 19th century and was cultivated as an economic crop as early as 1903 in
South Africa. In the past four decades, soybean cultivation area and production in SSA has
increased exponentially, from about 20,000 ha and 13,000 t in the early 1970s to 1,500,000 …