Eleusine coracana
Common Name: Finger Millet Description Eleusine coracana is an annual plant widely grown as a cereal in the arid areas… Read More »Eleusine coracana
Meet the crops
Balanites aegyptiaca
Common Name:Balanites Description Balanites aegyptiaca is a multibranched, spiny shrub or tree up to l0 m high. Crown rounded, dense… Read More »Balanites aegyptiaca
Opuntia monacantha
Common Name:Prickly pear Description Opuntia monacantha, commonly known as drooping prickly pear, cochineal prickly pear, or Barbary fig, is a… Read More »Opuntia monacantha
Musa balbisiana
Common Name: Bananas Description Musa balbisiana is a species of wild banana native to eastern South Asia, northern Southeast Asia,… Read More »Musa balbisiana
Brassica carinata
Common Name: Ethiopia Mustard Description Brassica carinata (Ethiopian rape,Ethiopian mustard, Abyssinian mustard) is a member of the Triangle of U… Read More »Brassica carinata
Allium cepa
Common Name: Onion Description The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa ‘onion’), also known as the bulb onion or… Read More »Allium cepa
Allanblackia floribunda
Common Name:veg tallow tree Description Allanblackia floribunda is an evergreen forest tree confined to tropical Africa, to 30 m tall.… Read More »Allanblackia floribunda
Canarium madagascariense
Common Name:Canarium nut, Ramy nut Description Canarium is a genus of about 100 species of tropical and subtropical trees, in… Read More »Canarium madagascariense
Parinari curatellifolia
Common Name:Mobola plum Description Parinari curatellifolia is a large, evergreen, spreading tree up to 20 m tall with a single… Read More »Parinari curatellifolia
Phaseolus vulgaris
Common Name: Green Bean Description Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean (also known as the string bean, field bean, flageolet bean,… Read More »Phaseolus vulgaris