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Major Crops and Cropping Systems in Dogu’a Tembien

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Settled agriculture in Tigray started at least 3000 years ago. Its long history is reflected in the high agricultural biodiversity, including endemic crops, such as the emblematic cereal tef (Eragrostis tef).

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  1. Department of Dryland Crop and Horticultural Sciences, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Alemtsehay Tsegay, Berhanu Abrha & Getachew Hruy

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  1. Alemtsehay Tsegay
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Correspondence to Alemtsehay Tsegay .

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  1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Jan Nyssen

  2. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Miro Jacob

  3. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Amaury Frankl

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Tsegay, A., Abrha, B., Hruy, G. (2019). Major Crops and Cropping Systems in Dogu’a Tembien. In: Nyssen, J., Jacob, M., Frankl, A. (eds) Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04955-3_27

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