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Better-off Women Boosting Groundnut Business in Ghana

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11610/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8
 
Title Better-off Women Boosting Groundnut Business in Ghana
 
Creator Akpo, E
Ojiewo, C O
Omoigui, L O
Rubyogo, J C
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Genetics and Genomics
Legume Crops
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description Groundnut was one of the biggest breeding programs in Ghana in the mid-nineties,
but the production declined because of many factors including the rosette disease and
the fact that there was no dedicated breeder of groundnut for over 10 years. According
to Dr. Roger Kanton, Deputy Director of CSIR-SARI (Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research - Savanna Agricultural Research Institute), it was then, in 2015,
with the support of the Tropical Legumes Projects that the groundnut breeding program
was reinitiated. “Only a few local germplasms were available,” adds Dr. Richard
Oteng-Frimpong, a young groundnut breeder, who came along with the support of
the Tropical Legumes projects to start again the breeding program in 2015.
Groundnut production and processing in Nyankpala, Northern Ghana, is now
seen as a business. Umar Jibril, a fabricator of groundnut shellers, narrates, “In
2006, we could barely fabricate one or two groundnut shellers in the year. Now we
fabricate up to 4 groundnut shellers per month; the demand is very high to a point
that clients must place an order well in advance. Our clients used to be the villagers
but nowadays our clientele is made of small and medium enterprises.”
 
Publisher Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11610/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_8.pdf
Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C O and Omoigui, L O and Rubyogo, J C and Varshney, R K (2020) Better-off Women Boosting Groundnut Business in Ghana. In: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 91-104. ISBN 978-981-15-0844-8