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Expanding Chickpea in non-traditional Lowlands of Ethiopia

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Title Expanding Chickpea in non-traditional Lowlands of Ethiopia
 
Creator addisu, abiy
 
Contributor Gibre, Desta
Tadesse, Fisseha
Tadesse, Negussie
Ebise, Kedir
Kemal, Seid Ahmed
Bishaw, Zewdie
 
Description Frequent drought is affecting the mixed farming and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia. In
the Agro-pastoral lowlands, maize, sorghum and common bean are the key crops produced by
famers when rainfall is favorable. However, during severe drought or erratic rainfall patterns,
these crops do not yield enough grain to feed the communities, generate incomes and feed to
their livestock. In order to diversify the cropping system in two in irrigated and rainfed lowlands,
non-traditional crops (wheat, barley, chickpea, lentil, and cowpea) were evaluated by farmers in
2014/15 cropping season. The season was very dry in the rainfed lowlands, and all crops failed
to produce grain for the farming communities. In both rain fed and irrigated sites, the kabuli
chickpea cv. Habru was selected by farmers. The average seed yield of chickpea in the rain fed
low land was more than 1.5t/ha compared to total failure of maize and other tradition crops
grown in the area during severe drought. The introduction of high yielding and Ascochyta blight
resistant chickpea in the rainfed lowlands is one of the options to diversify the farming system
and prevent complete crop losses due to drought and erratic rainfall patterns. Besides producing
acceptable yield, chickpea and cowpea were not attacked by termite which is a key pest in the
low lands. In the irrigated areas, the yield was higher than 2t/ha and can be used to improve land
productivity in the cotton-fallow cropping system. In conclusion, adoption of new crops like
chickpea to diversify farming system can improve the resilience of farmers in dry areas. The
breeding programs of EIAR and ICARDA should further develop chickpea cultivars with high yield
(seed and biomass),large seeded resistant to foliar diseases and responsive to supplementary
irrigation.
 
Date 2017-03-08T22:29:39Z
2017-03-08T22:29:39Z
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/downloadmelspace/hash/pk7ocS7W/v/73f44d67476606f1e90dc44050f65af6
Abiy addisu, Desta Gibre, Fisseha Tadesse, Negussie Tadesse, Kedir Ebise, Seid Ahmed Kemal, Zewdie Bishaw. (2/6/2016). Expanding Chickpea in non-traditional Lowlands of Ethiopia. Izmir, Türkiye.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/6334
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher UC Davis