Growing nutritious organic legumes.

Organic farming sometimes has a bad reputation for producing legumes with lower nutritional quality. Currently Kalil is involved in projects to improve disease management in pulse crops primarily focused on root rots of peas and lentils and Ascochyta blight of chickpeas. Among the objectives of this project are developing protein-enriched organic field pea and lentil varieties and providing on-farm Cooperative Extension Service educational activities. [Extracted from the article]