![]() Naturally gluten-free, the grain of teff can substitute for wheat flour and other cereals in anything from bread and pasta to waffles and pizza bases, as well as foods for people with celiac disease. Teff has naturally higher nutritional value when compared to many other grains, and doesn’t need to be fortified. In addition, we indicate the future perspectives of improving this vital crop that feeds 50 million people in the Horn of Africa. In this review, we present some progresses made in tef research and dissemination of technologies to the farming community. The national average yield of tef doubled in the last 20 years due mainly to the increased use of inputs that include improved seeds, fertilizers and herbicides. Since the start of research in tef five decades ago, 35 improved varieties were released to the farming community although only few of the recently released varieties received high adoption by growers. The susceptibility of the plant to lodging caused by wind and rain contributes for significant yield loss in tef. Despite its importance tef produces the lowest yield compared to other cereals due mainly to the widespread use of landraces and cultivars lacking desirable agronomic traits. Hence, tef plays a vital role in food security, nutrition, and income generation to resource poor farmers. Consumers prefer tef not only because it makes good quality bread, but also it is free of gluten for which some people are allergic. Farmers benefit since it is tolerant to many extreme environmental conditions including water-logging and storage pests. The crop is preferred both by farmers and consumers. The moral of this story boils down to simply taking advantage of the amazingly handy tools of Tabledit and it’s FREE sister program TEFView to help demonstrate the tablature’d arrangements to you visually and audibly.Tef is the most important cereal crop in Ethiopia, where it is the number one in terms of acreage covering 30% of the total area allocated to cereal crops. “Oh my!” responds the young man, “I never would have known!”… “Son, the car has a motor and a key to start it… It’s SELF-PROPELLED!”… “Pushing the car!”… responds the young man… “What are you doing?” cries the salesman… The young man and the salesman go out to the car and the young man puts it in neutral and starts pushing the car… “Please show me what you’re talking about, let’s go look at the car”, responds the salesman… “Wow”, the young man tells the salesman, “I had really hoped I’d be tooling down the roads in this beauty, but it turns out to be more trouble than it’s worth!” They come to an agreement and the young man gets the car.Ģ days later, the young man brings the car back to return it. This reminds me of a joke that hopefully will help drive the point of this post home:Ī young fellow goes into a car dealership and talks to a salesman about his first car purchase. ![]() ![]() When we can’t play by ear, we depend on our eyes and (tab) or (standard music notation) to help our fingers find the right path. Most of us, me included, prefer to play by ear. I’m not scolding anyone, just pointing out that Tabledit and TEFView (FREE) are magnificent programs and to use the PDFs (INSTEAD OF) Tabledit and TEFView is counter-intuitive when you’ve got all the power of the programs to help you. They could have listened to the MIDI playback via TEFView (FREE) or Tabledit and their questions would have been answered quickly…Įxplaining quarter notes, strum styles, correct fingering, etc., is nearly instantaneous when you let the program play it for you to hear… You also see the tab as it is being played, so that offers even more information.Īnd my explanations written out, in my own opinion, are nowhere near as good as you listening to the tab get played through TEFView or Tabledit… The questions asked could all have been explained had the individual downloaded the FREE version of Tabledit, which is TEFView from the Tabledit site. I’m not here to teach or explain, just arrange and present… ![]() I got an e-mailed request for a detailed explanation of a tab he/she purchased… So, if an individual downloads or buys tabs on this site and doesn’t use Tabledit to listen to the arrangement (MIDI), they are greatly defeating the purpose of this site for themselves. Get Tabledit or TEFView (It’s FREE sister program) – CLICK HERE… However, PDFs are secondary to Tabledit files where this site is concerned… I also post PDFs of most of the Tabledit (TEF) files because some folks find them useful… In other words, ALL tabs were worked out in Tabledit and are presented in Tabledit. This site is exclusively a Tabledit site. ![]()
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