Tag: Sorghum
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A SWEETER ABLO
Ablo is a traditional Togolese corn cake. It’s made by steaming some paste and comes out as as kind of a dumpling like cake. The farmers of Atti-Apedokoe grow plenty of maize but they don’t always get great yields these days. So they attended a training session offered by staff at the Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique (ITRA) and learned how to make ablo out of sorghum. It’s not just a matter of substituting maize flour for sorghum flour. The farmers of that part of Togo don’t traditionally grown sorghum so…
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TRY SOME SORGHUM IN YOUR COUSCOUS
The villagers of Atti-Apedokoe in Togo love their couscous. For generations, they’ve made it with maize (corn). But maize isn’t terribly resilient to all the challenges that Mother Nature is throwing at our farming systems these days. So scientists at the Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture – ICBA suggested the villagers try making their couscous with sorghum. They weren’t familiar with the crop but they were game to give it a go. After all, sorghum is a pretty tough crop and can tolerate the…
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