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Building Capacity: Advanced Training to Improve Tef Productivity

Ibsa and Getu looking at plants in a lab.

Long before he became a plant biologist studying crop improvement at the Danforth Center, Ibsa Merga was learning about agriculture as a child growing up on his family’s farm in the countryside of Ethiopia. Farming is the backbone of the local community there, and Merga spent his early years working with the plants his family…

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