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Towards a successful management of aflatoxin contamination in legume and cereal farming systems in northern Nigeria: A case study of the groundnut value chain

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Title Towards a successful management of aflatoxin
contamination in legume and cereal farming systems
in northern Nigeria: A case study of the groundnut
value chain
 
Creator Vabi, M B
Chris, E O
Ayuba, K
Babu, M N
Aisha, M A
Haruna, -
Sanusi, G S
Gaya, M S
Alabi, O
Adobe, K
Ajeigbe, H A
 
Subject Food Processing & Technology
Nigeria
Integrated Crop Management (ICM)
Groundnut
Africa
Aflatoxins
Value Chains
 
Description Aflatoxin is reported to be a major challenge of many agricultural commodity value chains groundnut, with
potential negative impacts on nutrition, food safety, human health and foreign trade. This paper presents
multiple pre-emptive management measures in the management of Aflatoxins in the groundnut value chain
in Nigeria. These measures include: the organization of Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops, development
of aptitudes in the detection and quantification of aflatoxin levels, demonstration of integrated crop
management (ICM) practices, production of pedagogic materials to support awareness raising engagement
of media organs to sustain awareness on the challenges of aflatoxin contamination, and evaluation and
promotion of Aspergillus flavus resistant groundnut varieties. Alongside these measures which target
behavioural corrections, samples of groundnut and groundnut-based are being collected to establish the
prevalence and distribution of aflatoxin contamination in groundnut kernel and groundnut-based products in
Northern Nigeria.
 
Publisher International Scholars Journals
 
Date 2018-07
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10914/1/Towards%20a%20successful%20management%20of%20aflatoxin.pdf
Vabi, M B and Chris, E O and Ayuba, K and Babu, M N and Aisha, M A and Haruna, - and Sanusi, G S and Gaya, M S and Alabi, O and Adobe, K and Ajeigbe, H A (2018) Towards a successful management of aflatoxin contamination in legume and cereal farming systems in northern Nigeria: A case study of the groundnut value chain. African Journal of Agriculture and Food Security, 6 (7). pp. 269-276. ISSN 2375-1177