@inproceedings{icrisat5602, booktitle = {Third International Conference of the Peanut Research Community On Advances in Arachis through Genomics and Biotechnology (AAGB ? 2008)}, year = {2008}, title = {Strides in groundnut crop improvement and new challenges}, pages = {1--1}, author = {S N Nigam}, url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/5602/}, abstract = { Groundnut is grown in 22.2 million ha in more than 100 countries in the world with a total production of 34.5 million t and an average productivity of 1.55 t ha-1(FAO, 2006). Asia accounts for 55.2\% of the global area and 66.7\% of the global production of the crop compared to 40.3\% of the area and 25.6\% of the production in Africa. During 1980-2006 period, the global groundnut area grew ...........} }