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Food-Fodder Traits in Groundnut

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Title Food-Fodder Traits in Groundnut
 
Creator Blummel, M
Ramakrishna Reddy, Ch
Ravi, D
Nigam, S N
Upadhyaya, H D
 
Subject Groundnut
 
Description Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is one of the key crops of
the semi-arid tropics. It is commonly cultivated as a foodfeed
crop that provides pods for human food and haulms
for livestock feeding (Larbi et al. 1999, Omokanye et al.
2001). From farmer participatory studies in the Deccan
plateau of India, Rama Devi et al. (2000) concluded that
food from grain/pods and fodder from the crop residues
almost equally contribute to livelihoods in mixed-crop
livestock systems. It was because of this important dualpurpose
usage of groundnut that the groundnut
improvement group of the International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and
livestock nutrition group of the International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI), Patancheru, India started to
explore collaboratively the potential for improving pod
yield and haulm quantity and quality. Successful
inclusion of haulm fodder traits into groundnut
improvement has three prerequisites:
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2005
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3207/1/IAN_25_52-54_2005.pdf
Blummel, M and Ramakrishna Reddy, Ch and Ravi, D and Nigam, S N and Upadhyaya, H D (2005) Food-Fodder Traits in Groundnut. International Arachis Newsletter, 25. pp. 52-54.