Cowpea (Vigna unquiculata (L). Walp. is an important forage and pulse crop. Recently a new variety 'Cowpea-88' has been released for cultivation in the Punjab [1]. It has been developed from the progeny obtained by irradiating the F, seed of a cross between the standard variety 'Cowpea-74' and a virus resistant strain 'No. H-2'. It is a dual purpose variety which gives higher green fodder as well as higher grain yield than the check variety, 'Cowpea-74'. Moreover, it is highly resistant to yellow mosaic virus and anthracnose diseases. Its promising features are given in Table 1.