ABSTRACT
Common buckwheat used to grow primarily in Asia; however, wild plants can be found in China, Siberia, and the Far East. Chinese people planted buckwheat as early as the eleventh century BC, and the diploid genotype of buckwheat has been grown in Mongolia since the tenth century. Buckwheat was first mentioned in European countries in 1396, and it has been grown in the US ever since the seventeenth century. Buckwheat is a cosmopolitan pseudocereal with limited production compared to cereals with higher yields. The buckwheat’s leaves grow from nodes. They are of cordate shape, 5 to 10 cm long, and alternately placed. Buckwheat is harvested when about 75% of the seeds have reached ripeness. Buckwheat is generally rich in vitamins and essential minerals. Buckwheat is used as a dietary food for children and the ill; its nutritional and medical properties make it a useful and interesting seed to many people.
