"10832","10","archive","1305",,,"disk0/00/01/08/32","2018-08-17 04:00:15","2018-08-21 04:38:46","2018-08-17 04:00:15","monograph",,,"show",,,,"","","","","","","","","","",,,,"Desmae","H","","","","","","","Desmae","H","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","ICRISAT (Bamako)","Mali","Groundnut cropping guide","pub","s1.3","CRPS1","","public","research_report",,"Groundnut, cropping guide",,"This cropping guide was jointly produced by staff from CABI and ICRISAT. The authors are
grateful to both organizations for facilitating their participation and mobilizing resources and
assets including knowledge products and photographs.
We wish to thank Simon Ndonye for his excellent illustrations and Wondimu Bayu for kindly
reviewing the early drafts.
This cropping guide has been produced thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation through a grant to the Africa Soil Health Consortium project, managed by CABI.","This cropping guide is one in a series being produced for extension workers by the African Soil
Health Consortium (ASHC). The series also covers banana-coffee, cassava, maize-legumes,
sorghum and millet-legumes, rice systems and sweetpotato, but this guide is focused on groundnut.
Rural extension workers will find this handbook particularly useful for guiding their clients as they
shift from producing groundnut under traditional cropping systems for subsistence to more marketoriented
enterprises through sustainable intensification.
The guide aims to provide, in a single publication, all the most important information needed to
design and implement effective systems, including those that combine groundnut with a range of
other crops, either as intercrops or in rotations, but with the primary focus on groundnut.
Although ASHC’s work is focused on the needs of smallholder farmers in Africa, emerging and
established commercial farmers will also find the contents relevant and useful.
The ASHC mission is to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through adoption of
Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) approaches that optimise fertilizer use efficiency and
effectiveness. The overarching framework for the guide is therefore provided by ISFM.
The overall objective of the handbook is to provide simple, useful tips on how farmers with small
to medium-sized farms can benefit from more efficient and profitable groundnut production.
Currently yields in Africa average under 1 tonne per hectare and can be as low as 500 kg or less: in
comparison yields in Asia average over 2.2 tonnes per hectare and are close to 4 tonnes per hectare
in the Americas.
By following the recommendations in this guide, smallholder farmers should be able to increase
production from under 1 tonne per hectare to as much as 2.5-3 tonnes per hectare or more. By
adopting optimal crop rotations, yield of crops such as cereals will also be increased and by
adopting successful intercrop combinations and arrangements smallholder farmers will benefit from
increases in overall production and profitability","2017","published","The Integrated Soil Fertility Management Cropping Systems Guide series",,,,"Africa Soil Health Consortium","Nairobi",,"43",,,,,,,"ICRISAT",,,,,,,,,,,"","http://africasoilhealth.cabi.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/562-ASHC-English-Groundnut-A4-bw-lowres.pdf","","",,"Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation","Africa Soil Health Consortium project (CABI)",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,
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