relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11610/
title: Better-off Women Boosting Groundnut Business in Ghana
creator: Akpo, E
creator: Ojiewo, C O
creator: Omoigui, L O
creator: Rubyogo, J C
creator: Varshney, R K
subject: Smallholder Farmers
subject: Genetics and Genomics
subject: Legume Crops
subject: 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
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11610/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_8.pdf
identifier:   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     
relation: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8
relation: doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8