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CDC Frontier
B tier
CDC Frontier is a Canadian-bred kabuli chickpea cultivar known in production agriculture for yield and adaptation—feeding export hummus and canning streams. Flavour is standard good kabuli when well grown and stored. A named agronomic cultivar behind anonymous retail cans. Cook as large cream chickpea. Relevance is supply-chain identity for bulk buyers. Home cooks meet it as generic garbanzo more often than by name.
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Characteristics
Preparations
CanDry CookHummus Industry
Traits
Canadian CultivarCommercialExportKabuli ProductionMildReliableStandard Kabuli
History
CA
CDC Frontier was released from Crop Development Centre chickpea breeding.
CA
Frontier-type kabuli supported Canadian export expansion.
CA
CDC Frontier remained a reference prairie kabuli cultivar.