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A Farmer’s Guide to Profitable Groundnut Production in Nigeria
Nigeria used to be the highest groundnut exporting country in Africa, but a combination of drought, rosette and other diseases wiped out groundnut production in the 1970s. ICRISAT, IAR and partners have developed and ...
Groundnut lines that combine several desirable traits into single genotype to meet the needs of the farmer, consumer and industry.
Single-seed descent, pedigree, and backcross methods of breeding are used to improve the target traits. Selection in segregating populations are enabled by (a) markers for three traits, resistance to rust and late leaf ...
Assessing crop model improvements through comparison of sorghum (sorghum bicolor L. moench) simulation models: A case study of West African varieties
Better defining niches for the photoperiod sensitive sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) varieties ofWest Africa into the local cropping system might help to improve the resilience of food production in theregion. In ...
Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that intensification can take smallholder farmers out of poverty. The emphasis in programming often implicitly emphasizes focusing on farm ...
Best Choices for Enhancing Groundnut Productivity in Nigeria
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as Peanut, is an annual crop
commonly grown by smallholder fanners. The name Groundnut can be
confusing as the plant is not typically a nut. The plant itself grows above
the ground ...
INNOVATION PLATFORM: METHOD TO ENGAGE CROP-LIVESTOCK STAKEHOLDERS IN WEST AFRICA
With an objective to understand the process on how can research (ers) in innovation platforms contribute in engaging crop-livestock stakeholders in mixed –farming systems of the semi-arid tropics of West Africa, five ...
Effect of foliar applications of micronutrient and methanol on seed yield of soybean
The foliar application of micronutrients and organic solvents at critical stages of the crop will be effectively absorbed by the sources and translocated to the developing sinks, producing more number of pods and better ...
Farmer participatory varietal selection in pearl millet: Experience across some states of Northern Nigeria
Farmers participation in the process of on-farm research does not only enrich the speed up of
information gathering, but also result in large scale adoption of the product of research. A small farmer
deals with a variable ...
Understanding and Managing Aflatoxin Contamination in the Groundnut Value Chain in Nigeria
This manual is conceived to support awareness raising campaigns of the groundnut value chain actors in and out of the States targeted
for the implementation of the USAID funded Groundnut Technology Upscaling Project in ...
Improving sorghum productivity under changing climatic conditions: A modelling approach
Climate variability and change will have far reaching consequences for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Crop modelling can help inform the improvement ...