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data-total-count="116" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">SPOKANE, Wash. — The rising popularity of hummus across the nation has been good for farmers like Aaron Flansburg.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="192" data-total-count="308" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Flansburg, who farms 1,900 acres near the town of <khlink class="khlinks" lang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Palouse" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(57, 170, 207) !important;">Palouse</khlink>, has been increasing the
amount of chickpeas he grows by about one-third each year to take advantage of good prices and rising demand.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="136" data-total-count="444" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Acreage devoted to chickpeas has exploded in the past decade in Washington and Idaho, which grow some two-thirds of the nation's supply.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="190" data-total-count="634" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In the Palouse region, there are more than 150,000
acres producing chickpeas today, up from about 12,000 acres in 2000. That's according to Todd Scholz of the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="110" data-total-count="744" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are also grown in California, Montana, North Dakota and other states.</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>