pigeonpea

The pigeonpea is a shrub that grows from one to a few meters tall and perhaps two meters wide, unless special short-season varieties are chosen.

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The slave trade took it to the West Indies, where its use as bird feed led to the name "pigeonpea" in 1692 (van der Maesen 1986).

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Leakey tries to encourage them to diversify by offering the "Leldet bouquet": instead of 2kg of maize seeds costing 300 Kenyan shillings $3, the farmer can get a mix of five seed packets with an equivalent weight of cowpeas, sorghum, beans, pigeonpea, millet and maize.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

In Malawi, Irish Aid works with Icrisat to train local seed breeders to produce improved groundnut and pigeonpea seeds that the government buys and distributes to farmers as seed subsidies.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

Improved pigeonpea varieties have produced an average 38% rise in harvests, research shows.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

For instance, improved pigeonpea varieties have produced an average 38% rise in harvests, Icrisat's research shows, while improved groundnut and chickpea varieties have increased harvests by 59% and 33% respectively.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

Farmers traditionally cultivate these crops on part of their fields to feed their families: millet, sorghum, pigeonpea, chickpea, cowpea, beans etc.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

The nett benefits are estimated at $41 million, and most of this has already been delivered to pigeonpea producers - but the benefit in reducing human misery has its own scale, and one that we cannot measure quantitatively.

The Place of Agriculture in Australia's Aid Program 1999

The extra fuelwood arising from expanded pigeonpea production has a special value for poor rural women and children, who are responsible for collecting fuelwood.

The Place of Agriculture in Australia's Aid Program 1999

For some of you, pigeonpea is already an important crop.

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