More gain from less rain: ICARDA's strategy to improve lentil for resource-poor farmers in dry areas
2002
Sarker, A. | Erskine, W. (ICARDA, Aleppo (Syria)) | Neupane, R.K. (National Agricultural Research Centre (Nepal)) | Sakr, B. (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Rabat (Morocco)) | El Ashkar, F. (Directorate of Agricultural Scientific Research, Douma (Syria)) | Lutfir, A. Agricultural Research and Extension Authority, Dhamar (Yemen))
In cereal-based farming systems in dry areas, lentils, like other food legumes, make an important contribution to human and livestock nutrition, to crop diversification, and sustainable agricultural production, by adding nitrogen to the soil and breaking cereal monoculture. Although lentils are adapted well to dry areas, drought poses a serious challenge to lentil farmers, particularly in the context of global warming and climate change
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