Designing effective groundnut breeding strategies through farmers-breeder interactions in Northern Nigeria

    Motagi, B N and Vabi, M B and Ajeigbe, H A and Echekwu, C A and Mohammed, S G (2016) Designing effective groundnut breeding strategies through farmers-breeder interactions in Northern Nigeria. In: 2nd International Conference on Drylands, 12th – 16th December 2016, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.

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    Abstract

    Nigeria is the largest groundnut producing country in West and Central Africa and the crop is grown largely under small-holder system and rain-fed conditions. Demand for improved groundnut varieties has been increasing over the years making it imperative to develop varieties suitable to different agro-ecological zones of Nigeria. ICRSAT has been working with national partners to develop improved groundnut varieties. Results of the participatory varietal selection and paired-wise ranking exercises revealed that resistance to pests and diseases, early maturity, pod yield, oil yield, haulm yield, pod and kernel features, and drought tolerance are the important groundnut traits to the farmers indicating a perfect alignment of farmers preference with breeders concerns on the development of improved groundnut varieties in Northern Nigeria.

    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
    Divisions: Research Program : West & Central Africa
    CRP: CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Breeding strategy, Groundnut, Nigeria, Pair-wise ranking, Participatory selection
    Subjects: Others > Plant Breeding
    Others > Nigeria
    Mandate crops > Groundnut
    Depositing User: Mr Ramesh K
    Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2017 10:10
    Last Modified: 17 May 2017 10:25
    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9865
    Acknowledgement: Funding Support for this intervention is provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) within the framework of the implementation of the Tropical LegumesIII (TL-III) and the Groundnut Up scaling Projects under the CRP-Grain Legumes.
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