Pigeonpea

CIAT, Crops, Fertilizer, Intensification, Legumes, Maize, Pigeonpea, Project, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Public and Private Partnerships improve smallholder farmer fortunes in Babati, Tanzania

In Bahati District, Tanzania, Improved crop performance and economic benefits demonstrated by application of fertilizers has helped to eliminate the farmers' initial fear of utilizing inorganic fertilizers.

By Africa RISING communications OnJune 15, 2021

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Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, Feeds, Ghana, IITA, Legumes, Livestock, MAIZECRP, Nutrition, Pigeonpea, Small Ruminants, University for Development Studies, West Africa

Best of both worlds: Intercropping Napier grass with legumes boosts food and livestock productivity in Ghana

Through the Africa RISING project, Terry Ansah and his colleagues from the University for Development Studies, Ghana, are working with farmers in northern Ghana to validate an innovative cropping system that will help farmers improve the productivity of their livestock and ...

By Africa RISING communications OnDecember 2, 2019

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CIMMYT, Climate change, Conservation agriculture, Crop Residues, Groundnuts, Intensification, Malawi, Pigeonpea, Southern Africa

Pulses, cobs and a healthy soil prove the success of a rural innovator

Long-term research on climate-smart agriculture in Malawi has improved the productivity, resilience and prospects of Mary Twaya, a single mother of three.

By Shiela Chikulo (CIMMYT) & Jerome Bossuet (CIMMYT) OnOctober 20, 2019

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Boosting land productivity using ‘doubled-up’ legume intercropping in Malawi

This evidence brief explains how Africa RISING is using an intercropping system known as 'doubled-up' legume technology using two complimentary grain legumes. Groundnut–pigeon pea intercropping is the most successful doubled-up system thanks to the two crops’ contrasting structures and maturity dates. ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnMay 24, 2017

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Doubled-up legume technologies in conservation agriculture show potential for scale up in Zambia

The doubled-up legume system in conservation agriculture is premised on the belief that while farmers will be in a position to get the usual benefits of the doubled-up legumes (‘double’ the grain output per farm, hence more food and also ‘double’ ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnMay 18, 2017

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Doubled-up legume technology in Malawi boosts land productivity

A newly published brief by Africa RISING explains how the doubled-up legume technology works and how to get optimum yields using the technology.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 25, 2015

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Increasing pigeonpea productivity in a novel doubled-up legume cropping system in Malawi

At this week's international conference on Integrated Systems Research for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture, Chiwimbo Gwenambira (Michigan State University) presented a poster explaining a a novel doubled-up legume cropping system in Malawi.

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 3, 2015

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