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Table 1 Water use efficiency or consumption of water per unit of biomass produced (sources: [8, 12])

From: The sustainability of reforesting landscapes with exotic species: a case study of eucalypts in Ethiopia

Plant

Liters of water consumed kg− 1 of biomass produced

Sorghum

250

Maize

250

Caw pea

500

Soybean

500

Eucalyptus (tree)

510

Albizia lebbek (tree)

580

Potato

600

Sunflower

600

Field pea

600

Horse bean

600

Pddy rice

600

Syzygium cuminii (tree)

610

Cotton/coffee/banana

800

Acacia auriculiformis (tree)

860

Dalbergia sisso (tree)

890

Conifers

1000

Pongamia pinnata (tree)

1300