CROPS GROWN AT THE HGBF | CNTA

Various marketable crops can be grown and nourished in difficult climate conditions with conservation agricultural (CA) systems. This gives families access to balanced diets and supports farmers in managing their risk by having produce year-round.

Below are examples of typical crops grown, harvested, and sold at the HGBF | CNTA.

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Maize

Food crop: vegetable used for both human and animal consumption.

Carrot

Food crop: vegetable used for making salad and stew.

Cabbage

Food crop: vegetable used for making salad and stew.

Plantain

Food crop: a starch that is sweet or salty depending on its ripeness; it is used to cook Fufu or is boiled to eat with soup.

Papaya

Food crop: a popular fruit.

Cassava

Food crop: a starch that is used to cook Fufu; in other West African countries, the leaves are cooked for soup.

Cocoyam

Food crop: starch that is sweet and is used to cook Ampesi and Fufu. It can also be fried.

Sweet Potato

Food crop: a starch that is boiled or roasted; in other West African countries, the leaves are cooked for soup.

Garden Egg

Food crop: vegetable used for soups and stew.

Pepper

Food crop: vegetable used often to flavor meat and soup.

Spring Onion

Food crop: vegetable used often to flavor soup.

Amaranth

Food crop: a leaf used to make soup.

Millet

Food crop: a grain used for making traditional food.

Sorghum

Food crop: a grain used for making traditional food and drinks.

Mucuna

Cover crop: a nitrogen fixing and soil protection plant.

Cowpea

Cover crop: a green legume used to cook soup and is a nitrogen fixing and soil protector cover crop.

Mexican Sunflower

Strip cropping: a nutrient recycler and is cut to mulch when it begins to spread.

Crotalaria Jauncea

Cover crop: used to attract pollinators such as bees.

Moringa

Tree crop: a medicinal leaf used to make tea for digestive health.

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CROPS GROWN AT THE HGBF | CNTA