Chickpea: Linking soil fertility and market demand in Ethiopia [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]
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Chickpea: Linking soil fertility and market demand in Ethiopia [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]
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ICRISAT, ESA
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Chickpea
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Ethiopia is ancient and enduring but recently major landscape scale changes are transforming the face of the country. “Three years ago, when you drove past, the countryside did not look like this. All these darker brown squares are where chickpea has been harvested,” explains Tsedeke Abate, Scientist at ICRISAT-Nairobi. “You can really see how much acreage is being devoted to chickpea today. Ten years ago this was all mostly teff . “Teff , a small-grain cereal, is the primary ingredient of injera – the bread that accompanies almost every Ethiopian meal. “What we are seeing is a shift from cereals to legumes on a large scale and it is the market that is responsible for this,” Abate says. |
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
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2012
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Monograph
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/6657/1/Chickpea.pdf
ICRISAT, ESA (2012) Chickpea: Linking soil fertility and market demand in Ethiopia [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. |
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