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Workers harvest experimental varieties of barley at Oromia Seed eEnterprise’s Lole Farm, a government-owned seed farm in the east Arsi region of Ethiopia. while Ethiopia is better known for its coffee, farmers have been growing barley in the area for more than five millennia. It’s known as gebs ye ehil nigus,
the “king of crops,” since it is a key ingredient in many of the traditional dishes and drinks that are important to the economic and social life of the country, from kita (a flatbread) and kolo (a roasted barley snack) to beer. The government hopes to distribute higher-yielding varieties to smallholder farmers who produce up to 95 percent of Ethiopia’s agricultural output, to help alleviate poverty and food insecurity. Persistent drought and civil conflict, however, left more than twenty
million people in need of food assistance in 2023.

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Workers harvest experimental varieties of barley at Oromia Seed eEnterprise’s Lole Farm, a government-owned seed farm in the east Arsi region of Ethiopia. while Ethiopia is better known for its coffee, farmers have been growing barley in the area for more than five millennia. It’s known as gebs ye ehil nigus,<br /> the “king of crops,” since it is a key ingredient in many of the traditional dishes and drinks that are important to the economic and social life of the country, from kita (a flatbread) and kolo (a roasted barley snack) to beer. The government hopes to distribute higher-yielding varieties to smallholder farmers who produce up to 95 percent of Ethiopia’s agricultural output, to help alleviate poverty and food insecurity. Persistent drought and civil conflict, however, left more than twenty<br /> million people in need of food assistance in 2023.

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