When it began
Fava beans, lentils and peas were amongst the earliest plants to be domesticated during the Neolithic Revolution about 10,000 years ago.
Archaeology tells us this happened in the Fertile Crescent (upper Tigris and Euphrates valleys) and helped enable man to live in settled rather than nomadic communities.
At about the same time, common kidney type beans were domesticated in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes.
Since then, migration, exploration, slavery and trade have fuelled the spread of all these plant varieties to every corner of the temperate globe.
Collectively labelled ‘legumes’, pulses continue to be one of man’s most dependable food and fodder crops.
They not only provide us with protein (up to 24% by dry weight), complex carbohydrates (when eaten with cereals) and dietary fibre but also fix nitrogen into the soil.
Maviga was incorporated in London in 1994 and has since become a significant player in the international trade of pulses and other special crops.
