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Better-off women boosting groundnut business in Ghana

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Title Better-off women boosting groundnut business in Ghana
 
Creator Akpo, E.
Ojiewo, C.O.
Omoigui, L.O.
Rubyogo, Jean-Claude
Varshney, Rajeev K.
 
Subject groundnuts
markets
gender
income generation
ghana
breeding
women
tropical legumes
 
Description Published online: 11 Mar 2020
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.
 
Date 2020
2020-08-10T09:51:24Z
2020-08-10T09:51:24Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Akpo, E., Ojiewo, C.O., Omoigui, L.O., Rubyogo, J.C. & Varshney, R.K. (2020). Better-off women boosting groundnut business in Ghana. In E. Akpo, C.O. Ojiewo, L.O. Omoigui, J.C., Rubyogo, and R.K. Varshney, Sowing legume seeds, reaping cash: a renaissance within communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Gateway East, Singapore: Springer International Publishing, (p. 91-104).
978-981-15-0844-8
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108977
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8
BIOTECH & PLANT BREEDING
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 91-104
application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer International Publishing