The main reason Gerald Ssendaula, a former minister of Finance, grows groundnuts is to have them as part of the diet in his household at Kyabbogo village in Masaka City. “I grow them because we eat ...

Nigeria is the third largest producer of groundnuts in the world and the largest in Africa. The majority of the more than three million metric tonnes of groundnuts produced annually in the country are ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) has provided capacity building in groundnut seed production for 60 women producers to ensure a ...

Groundnut, also known as peanut, is the second most important legume after beans in Uganda. It is also the sixth most important oilseed crop in the world. In Uganda, it is predominantly cultivated by ...

ANANTAPUR: Farmers of Anantapur and Sri Sathya Sai districts are in a dilemma whether to grow groundnut or cotton during the Kharif season even as the monsoon is on the threshold of onset. Groundnut ...

High seed cost, low level of adoption of mechanisation in most states other than Gujarat are some of the key factors identified by Junagadh-based Indian Institute of Groundnut Research (IIGR) as ...

Nigeria is the largest groundnut producer in the African continent, and the fourth producer of the crop in the world. The country produces around 1.5 million metric tons of groundnut annually and ...

A Senior Research Scientist at the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr. Prince Maxwell Etwire, has advocated investment ...

VIJAYAWADA: In a bid to support groundnut farmers across the State, the government has taken measures to provide subsidised seeds for the upcoming Rabi season, Agriculture Minister Kinjarapu ...

ANANTAPUR: There is a crisis building in Rayalaseema as cultivation of groundnut, a major crop of the region with Anantapur district being the top grower, is falling due to consecutive crop losses.

The Federal Government and Kaduna State Government are collaborating to improve groundnut farming in the state, according to Tijjani Isiyaku Kaduna State Director, Agricultural Transformation Agenda ...

High groundnut oil prices are unlikely to go down during the 2022-23 season as kharif groundnut production is likely to dip by 0.85 million tonne to below 3 million tonne in the season due to a ...