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Germplasm Enhancement for Increasing Groundnut Productivity and Production in West and Central Africa

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Title Germplasm Enhancement for Increasing Groundnut Productivity and Production in West and Central Africa
 
Creator Motagi, B N
Desmae, H M
Ajeigbe, H A
Echekwu, C
Sako, D
Tabo, R
Monyo, E
Upadhyaya, H D
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Groundnut
West Africa
Central Africa
 
Description West and Central Africa (WCA) account for almost 70% of groundnut production in Africa playing an important role
to farmers’ livelihood and significantly contributes to the export sector of the countries in the region. However, the
productivity in the region is limited due to many factors including biotic and abiotic constraints. The gap between
potential and realized yield is large in subsistence farming. To address these issues, ICRISAT has been working
with national partners in the region to improve productivity of groundnut with the Tropical Legumes project support.
ICRISAT has supplied more than 2,500 trait-specific advanced breeding lines (resistance to foliar diseases, rosette,
aflatoxin contamination, early and medium maturing, confectionery types and tolerant to drought) to the national
programs in WCA for genetic enhancement of groundnut. Based on the NPT and PVS trials, the national programs
in Niger released four varieties (RRB, ICG 9346, J11 and Fleur 11). In Nigeria, three short-duration, rosette resistant
varieties (Samnut-24, Samnut-25 and Samnut-26) were released. In Mali, eight varieties including ICGV 86015 and
ICGV 86124 were selected by farmers. While six and four varieties were released in Senegal and Ghana respectively.
Most of these varieties were preferred by farmers for their high yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, short
duration, seed size, suitability for home consumption, seed color and market demand and had yield advantage of
up to 42% over the local varieties grown by farmers. The current efforts to deploy modern breeding approaches
and tools to enhance genetic gains are discussed.
 
Date 2016-11
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Motagi, B N and Desmae, H M and Ajeigbe, H A and Echekwu, C and Sako, D and Tabo, R and Monyo, E and Upadhyaya, H D and Varshney, R K (2016) Germplasm Enhancement for Increasing Groundnut Productivity and Production in West and Central Africa. In: 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress, November 06-09, 2016, New Delhi, India.