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Faba Bean Forage Intercropping Practices to Meet Food-Feed Demands in Land-Constrained Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems of Southern Ethiopia

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Faba Bean Forage Intercropping Practices to Meet Food-Feed Demands in Land-Constrained Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems of Southern Ethiopia
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JAOXFJ
 
Creator International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Small land holdings are among the main constraints for smallholders to produce enough food and feed to meet household demands. During the main cropping season, when all the land is covered by stable crops, feed is critically in short supply. Africa RISING’s diagnostic surveys showed that during such times weeds growing with faba bean crop are used as important feed resource by farmers in Ethiopia. Farmers leave the weed to grow with the faba bean until a certain stage, which is against the recommended agronomic practice through the extension system. A series of experiments were conducted to explore the rationale behind farmers preference, involving three faba bean production practices: 1) the traditional management practice (where weeds are used as forage), 2) improved practice (where weeds are frequently removed from faba bean plots) and 3) intercropping faba bean with fodder oat. The dataset contains the grain yield, straw yield, forage yield and gross income from the different practices and faba bean varieties in the Lemo district of Africa RISING site.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
faba beans
smallholders
intercropping
fodder
farming systems
gross income
intensification
ETHIOPIA
EAST AFRICA
AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA
AFRICA
 
Language English
 
Date 2018
 
Contributor IFPRI-KM
Derseh, Melkamu (International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
Mekonnen, Kindu (International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
Adie, Aberra (International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
Areka Agricultural Research Center, Hawassa University
 
Type experimental data