Growing chickpeas in Hawaii
What does a chickpea want? Not much, according to Dr. Amjad Ahmad. That’s why the UN declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses: Legumes, or pulses, are able to grow—and give bountiful nutrition to humans and animals—with relatively few inputs. They’re drought tolerant, and thanks to nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, they need little fertilizer. Dr. Ahmad, in […]