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Groundnuts, not tobacco

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Title Groundnuts, not tobacco
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description A high-yielding groundnut variety (ICGV-SM 90704) with good resistance against groundnut rosette has come within reach. Rosette is a devastating disease and is always present in the ground-nut crop. A low inci-dence is usually acceptable but in cases of epidemic outbreaks, which occur regularly in sub-Saharan Africa, it destroys the entire crop, causing average losses of US$ 156 million yearly. This discourages many farmers from growing groundnuts. Now ICRISAT scientists based in Malawi have developed several high-yielding breeding lines with resistance to rosette; in combination with early sowing, and at an optimal plant density, they give promising results. They have been released in Malawi and Uganda and are on their way in Zambia and Mozambique. The breeder seed production takes place at the ICRISAT station in Malawi, and foundation and basic seed production is done at commercial farms for sale to NGOs and farmers. The crop is regarded as a viable alternative to tobacco a hot topic in the region. It thrives in the same poor soils and agro-climatic conditions and fixes nitrogen in the soil.



Dr Pala Subrahmanyam

ICRISAT

Chitedze Research Station

PO Box 1096

Lilongwe

Malawi

Fax: + 265 707 298

Email: p.subrahmanyam@cgiar.org
A high-yielding groundnut variety (ICGV-SM 90704) with good resistance against groundnut rosette has come within reach. Rosette is a devastating disease and is always present in the ground-nut crop. A low inci-dence is usually acceptable but in...
 
Date 2014-10-16T09:05:44Z
2014-10-16T09:05:44Z
2001
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 2001. Groundnuts, not tobacco. Spore 91. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46064
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore;91
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore