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Improving farmers income from improved Kabuli chickpea production through linking farmers to a sustainable market
In Gumara-maksegnet watershed, chickpea is major crops for goat keepers. Chickpea residue is a highly nutritious livestock feed widely used by farmers in the area. Farmers have grown the local chickpea variety with traditional ...
Food Legume Improvement Program 1988
The crop improvement research was done at the principal research station of ICARDA at Tel Hadya, as well as at several subsites in northern Syria (Breda, Jinderess, and Lattakia) and Lebanon (Terbol). Weather condition ...
Identification of genetic sources of improved responses to nitrogen fixing rhizobacteria and other plant growth promoting microbes
This is report of Nitrogen fixation
ICARDA Annual Report 2000
This Annual Report of ICAKLIA for 2000 is the first to reflect the new structure of reporting,
which is based on the five CGIAR themes: Gerrnplasrn Enhancement, Production Systems
Management, Natural Resource Management, ...
Food Legume Improvement Program 1987
The food legumes, faba bean, lentil and kabuli chickpea, form an important component of the rainfed farming systems of West Asia and North Africa (WANA) because of their ability to fix atmospheric
nitrogen, the key to ...
Narrowing the yield gap of food legumes through integrated management of parasitic weeds in the highlands of Ethiopia
The project was implemented in two districts of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The parasitic weed (Orobanche crenata) is distributed in different districts of the Northern highlands expanding its ecological range since ...
Community Seed Production of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and Lentil (Lens culinaris Medic) in Ethiopia
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris Medic) are the most important grain legumes
covering 21.3% of the total acreage (1.6 million ha) and 24.1% of production (23.2 millon tons) of
all pulse crops in ...
ICARDA Annual Report 1995
Achieving sustainable increases in agricultural productivity in the dry areas is a real challenge.
Rainfall in these areas is, by definition, low and variable. Conventional water resources are
limited, and the share available ...
Preliminary Gendered Analysis of Household Survey Conducted in the Lentil-Chickpea Zones of North-Shewa Amhara Region
Preliminary Gendered Analysis of Household Survey Conducted in the Lentil-Chickpea Zones of North-Shewa Amhara Region.
Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa: Challenges, opportunities and contributions towards improved livelihoods
This technical paper begins with an introduction to
grain legumes and their importance in Eastern Africa,
followed by trends in production and productivity,
variety development, release and promotion.
It proposes and ...