“…The figure uses data from rainfed and irrigated warm season crops (monocropped and intercropped soybean, cowpea, green gram, and black gram), and cool season crops (pea, chickpea, lentil, faba bean, and lupin) growing in South Asia (Schulz et aI., 1999;Maskey et aI., 2001;Aslam et aI., 2003;Shah et aI., 2003;Maskey and Bhattarai, unpublished), West Asia (Beck et aI., 1991;Kurdali et aI., 1997), South-East Asia (Rerkasem and Sampet, unpublished), Europe (Zapata et aI., 1987;Beck et aI., 1991;Jensen, 1997), North America (Rennie and Dubetz, 1986;Smith et aI., 1987), South America (Boddey et aI., 1990;Alves and Boddey, unpublished), and Australia (Rochester et aI., 1998;Peoples et aI., 2001;Rochester et aI., 2001;Peoples and Herridge, unpublished). chickpea over a 3-year period which implied that lentil was better suited to the local soil and environmental conditions, and/or was more tolerant of the prevailing pests and diseases (Table 6).…”