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The Tanganyika groundnut scheme, or East Africa groundnut scheme, was a failed attempt by the British government to cultivate tracts of its African trust territory Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania) with peanuts.
Macrotyloma geocarpum is also known as the ground bean, geocarpa groundnut, Hausa groundnut, or Kersting's groundnut. In French, it is often called la lentille de terre . M. geocarpum is an herbaceous annual plant and a crop of minor economic importance in sub-Saharan Africa , tolerant of drought, with a growth habit similar to that of the peanut .
Apios fortunei, commonly known as hodo, hodoimo, groundnut, or potatobean, [1] [2] [3] [4] is a tuber-forming member of the bean family.. The plant is a perennial ...
Reading the two "Groundnut Scheme" articles, this one is by far the most complete and correct, although both pages fail utterly to even mention the town of Mtwara which was to have been the principal export facility, and was the administrative and commercial base for most of the scheme. BTW, my father was one of the Shell sales reps in the area ...
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Aphis craccivora, variously known as the cowpea aphid, groundnut aphid or black legume aphid, is a true bug in the family Aphididae. [2] Originally of probable Palearctic origin, it is now an invasive species of cosmopolitan distribution .
Apios americana, sometimes called the American groundnut, potato bean, hopniss, Indian potato, hodoimo, America-hodoimo, cinnamon vine, or groundnut (not to be confused with other plants in the subfamily Faboideae sometimes known by that name) is a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.
It has a smooth, slender, stem, up to 40 centimetres (16 in) high, much-divided leaves, and small, white flowers in many-rayed terminal compound umbels. [2] [3]The rounded "nut" (inconsistently described by authorities as a tuber, [2] corm, or root) is similar to a chestnut in its brown colour and its size, up to 25 millimetres (1 in) in diameter; its sweet, aromatic flavour has been compared ...