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What high yield agricultural crops are being grown in Ethiopia?
Are new low water and high yield crops being grown in Ethiopia?
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Among the many high yield agricultural crops grown in Ethiopia we can count: wheat, barely, corn, millet, sorghum, teff and oats.
Between June and December (the meher season in Ethiopia), teff, wheat, and barley crops are planted. Most of the fields are in the grain filling stages and in certain regions some fields start to harvest. If conditions are favorable for farmers due to high cereal prices, seed availability or rains during March thru August (belg rains) and June thru December (meher rains), then they plant that year.
The June thru October rainy season (keremt rains) could arrive on time and if they are thoroughly distributed during the growing season, long-cycle corn and sorghum crops could be observed ranging from flowering to grain filling stages in the low altitude regions, and even corn harvested near the southern Awasa corn belt.
In Ethiopian agriculture the elevation is important. Sorghum and corn grow at lower to mid-altitudes; teff and wheat grow at higher altitude; and barley and oats grow at the highest altitudes above 3000 meters.
Elevation determines when certain regions will get one or two growing seasons, and the Length of Growing Periods (LGP) in lowland and highland regions are always different. Additionally, highland regions get more rainfall and longer LGP, where intricate relay planting patterns can be used. Due to complex agronomics caused by elevation this can predict where warm-season and cold-season crops can grow in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian 2007-2008 forecast for small grains like wheat and barley was 5.8 million tons, a record crop. The forecast for coarse grains like corn, millet or sorghum was 8.7 million tons (250,000 tons less than the previous year). Last year was the third consecutive year with above-average grain harvests for Ethiopia.
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