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Development and performance evaluation of a solar powered groundnut sheller
Cogent EngineeringA solar powered groundnut sheller was developed and evaluated for shelling the groundnut pods with diminished environmental pollution and cost of shelling.
Vinod Choudhary +2 more
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Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series E: Food Technology, 2017 Nutritional quality and functional properties of composite flour consisting amaranth grain, bambara groundnut, carrot and rice bran flours were evaluated. The dependent variables were optimized using optimal mixture model of response surface methodology.
Awolu Olugbenga Olufemi +1 more
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Groundnut Trade Liberalization: Could the South Help the South? [PDF]
This paper analyzes policies affecting global groundnut-products markets. The new US groundnut policy is now a minor source of distortion in world markets where India and China stand out as the major distorters.
Beghin, John C. +2 more
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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Labour Demand and Labour-saving Options: A Case of Groundnut Crop in India [PDF]
Groundnut is a labour-intensive crop, especially for operations like sowing, weeding, harvesting, and drying. But, of-late, due to timely unavailability of labour, many farmers are not able to exercise timely operations resulting in low yield realization.
Govindaraj, G., Mishra, A.P.
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.We assessed Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) performance on five common pasture plant species. Larvae consumed more dock, plantain and chicory per day than red or white clover, but with lower conversion efficiencies. Feeding on red clover reduced weights and egg laying, and lengthened development times compared with plantain.
J. G. Jensen +4 more
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Recycling the groundnut crop waste as fertilizer and paper [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesIndia is the second largest producer of groundnut in the world. More than 85 lakhs of hectares of the land isapproximately used in groundnut cultivation.
Arunachalam E. +3 more
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Analysis of Potential Value Chains for Scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa [PDF]
, 2020 Despite the development of several CSA options and their positive gains, their wide scale adoption remains a challenge. Integrating the value chain analysis into the Climate-Smart Village (CSV) - Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) approach ...
Ouédraogo, Mathieu +2 more
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Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of resource discoveries on ethnicity‐level political patronage in Africa using a large geospatial dataset of 254 ethnic groups in 15 countries over the period 1960–2004. We find that the first (or single first) resource discovery in a virgin ethnic homeland increases the share of cabinet posts of that ethnicity.
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Nemera Mamo
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International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2021 The field experiments were conducted at Agronomy Main Research Farm, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during rabi (November–March) seasons of 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 to evaluate direct and residual effect of ...
T. K. Samant +5 more
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