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• n  an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay

• This year it's bursting with life, especially in the fields where local farmers grow barley, potatoes and teff, a cereal used to make the flat, spongy bread injera.
• The agency's 1996 book Lost Crops of Africa profiles 10 little used grain species out of sub-Saharan Africa's 2,000-plus food plants, from teff, an Ethiopian staple rich in protein .

• teff grass
• Eragrostis tef
• Eragrostic abyssinica

News & Articles

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• CRTC, Coast Guard impacted by shutdown
  ALPENA -The government shutdown will have a major effect at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. Col. Bryan Teff, commander of the CRTC, said the base and its staff will be deeply impacted by the government's shutdown.
  Oct. 2, 2013 - The Alpena News