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Chickpea: Linking soil fertility and market demand in Ethiopia [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]

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302-2012
 
Title Chickpea: Linking soil fertility and market demand in Ethiopia [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]
 
Creator ICRISAT, ESA
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier 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.