Chickpeas can Change the World

Enriching the soil with life-giving nutrients

Just as it is good for our nutrition, the power of chickpeas is also harnessed to enrich the soil with life-giving nutrients. The roots of legumes (plants that bear their seeds in pods), especially chickpeas, are home to bacteria that transform atmospheric nitrogen into the organic form needed by other plants to grow. The variety of amino acids in chickpea plants also contributes to successful crop rotation and land cultivation.

This is the reason why chickpeas are now considered to be the key to global food security, and are a crucial source of income and nutrition in developing countries. In Africa and other locations worldwide, natural farming techniques have been passed down through the generations, with chickpeas grown in cycles as a proven practice for sustaining all crops types without the use of artificial fertilizers.