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Expanding Chickpea in non-traditional Lowlands of Ethiopia
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. ...
Analysis of seed platform in Central Asia
A trip was made to Uzbekistan from 23-26 February 2015 to visit the activities of the Seed System Platform under the CRP Dryland Systems organized in CAC region. Several rounds of meetings were organized with staff of ...
Advances, challenges and opportunities in cool-season food legumes in dry area
Cool-season food legumes (chickpea, lentil, faba bean, field pea, and grass pea) are an integral part of subsistence farming in dry areas because these crops are a great source of nutritious food, feed, and income to small ...
Advancing and Supporting Scaling of Innovations - ARARI Potato and banana
Advancing and Supporting Scaling of Innovations - ARARI Potato and banana
ICARDA Country Brief Series: Ethiopia
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) country brief series provides a snapshot of the work ICARDA has done and what is ongoing in the different countries in which ICARDA operates. It ...
Identification of Farmer’s Preferred Durum Wheat (Triticum durum L) Varieties in Southeastern Ethiopia
Participatory varietal selection (PVS) of durum varieties was conducted at Selka and Ilu Sanbitu kebeles in southeaster Ethiopia. Four released durum wheat varieties were evaluated on two farmers' fields per kebele (lowest ...
Advances, Challenges and Opportunities in Cool Season Food Legumes in Dry Areas
Cool-season food legumes (CSFL) such as chickpea, lentil, faba bean, field pea, and grass pea are an integral part of subsistence farming in dry areas and the major sources of nutritious food for human, feed for livestock, ...
Diversification of wheat based cropping system in the highlands of Ethiopia
Poster : Diversification of wheat
based cropping system in the highlands of Ethiopia
Breaking wheat-based monocropping system through scaling of diverse crops and varieties in the highlands of Ethiopia
Bread wheat is the third important food crop in the highlands of Ethiopia. Monocropping and rust disease epidemics remain challenges to increase bread wheat productivity and production. One of the strategies used in the ...
Participatory variety selection and multiplication of early generation seed of cereals and food legumes for mixed farming system in North Shoa, Ethiopia
The highlands of North Shoa in Amhara region are dominated by cereals (wheat, barley and tef) followed by food legumes. The productivity of cereals and food legumes is low due to biotic and abiotic factors as well as ...