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Video series explains how humans, soil benefit from pulse crops
Sept. 6, 2016— Educational videos released this week by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) celebrate the International Year of Pulses (IYP), as designated by the United Nations. Pulses—dry beans, peas, and lentils—are an important crop for a sustainable agronomic future. The videos are the latest in a series of informational offerings by CSSA celebrating IYP.
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In Argentina, the National Post Office is launching a series of stamps to support the International Year of Pulses. There will be four different stamps with different types of beans including: the common bean, peas, lentils and garbanzo. The hope is that this will sensitize the public about the nutritional benefits of pulses as part of a sustainable food production aimed at achieving food and nutrition security. One of the main challenges that the supply chain faces is developing a domestic market in Argentina. Domestic consumption is very low which generates a dependency on the international market. The hope is that these stamps will help boost production benefiting the national economy and the health of the country.
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U.N. DECLARED ‘INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF PULSES 2016’
Celebrations in Mumbai, India
A one day National Conference on “Know your Pulses - 2016” was organized by the ‘Science Association’ of Guru Nanak College of Arts, Science and Commerce on 31st August 2016, to celebrate the “International Year of Pulses” (IYoP) declared by the United Nations.
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Original article by Adi Menayang, 07-Sep-2016
As the legume snack category matures, Poorvi Patodia, founder of roasted chickpea brand Biena, says the landscape is “very promising, encouraging, and exciting.”
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This article originally appeared on Yahoo Finance
LONDON and LILONGWE, Malawi, September 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Afri-Oils Limited aims to revive Malawi's groundnut export industry, with benefits for tens of thousands of smallholder farmers.
AgDevCo, a social impact agribusiness investor, announced a $1.5m debt and equity investment into a Malawian peanut (groundnut) processor.
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Jeff Ehlers, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Pulse crops are good to grow, good to eat
Pulse crops offer smallholder farmers a multi-faceted way to improve food security, diet, and soil health as well as economic returns and income stability. With the ability to convert atmospheric nitrogen to usable forms, pulses make their own nitrogen fertilizer. Even better, the nitrogen that is fixed becomes available to subsequent crops grown in the same field. When farmers plant pulses together with a main cereal crop (intercropping), just after the main crop (relay crop), or as a short-season ‘catch’ crop, they can boost overall land productivity. By rotating pulses and cereals, soil fertility is improved and cycles of pests and disease that harm cereal yields can be broken. Adding pulses to cropping systems gives farmers alternative crops to sell and income stability in the face of volatile cereal prices. Often grown and sold by women farmers, pulse crops can unlock doors of opportunity for rural women.