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Whistles and whips: Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation program results in sounds of success in Ethiopia’s lowlands

Ethiopian farmers growing TAAT-funded heat-tolerant wheat use whips and whistles to deter birds from eating wheat crops. Korofto, Adama District - If the shrill sounds of policemen’s whistles echoing across Ethiopia’s Awash River Valley do not seem out of place, the crack of whips in the