eprintid: 11610
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3170
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datestamp: 2020-09-07 09:22:50
lastmod: 2020-09-07 09:22:50
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metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Akpo, E
creators_name: Ojiewo, C O
creators_name: Omoigui, L O
creators_name: Rubyogo, J C
creators_name: Varshney, R K
icrisatcreators_name: Akpo, E
icrisatcreators_name: Ojiewo, C O
icrisatcreators_name: Varshney, R K
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Kano, Nigeria
affiliation: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Arusha, Tanzania
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
country: Kenya
country: Nigeria
country: Tanzania
country: India
title: Better-off Women Boosting Groundnut Business in Ghana
ispublished: pub
subjects: GL1
subjects: s2.13
subjects: s355
subjects: s4004
divisions: CRPS5
divisions: CRPS3
divisions: CRPS1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Grain legume productivity, Smallholder farmers, Impact stories, Multi-stakeholders, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tropical Legumes projects
abstract: 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.”
date: 2020
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
place_of_pub: Singapore
pagerange: 91-104
pages: 14
id_number: doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-981-15-0844-8
book_title: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_8
citation:   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     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11610/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_8.pdf