Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Ghana is the world's third-biggest exporter of unprocessed cashew nuts, behind Ivory Coast in first place, and Cambodia in second. To produce the crop, around 300,000 Ghanaians make at least part ...
It moved in 2005 due to lobbying by the Groundnut Farmers Association of Nigeria. The first executive secretary of the organization was Jacques Diouf . The setting up of AGC was intended to promote economic cooperation and discuss common problems such as commodity pricing among African producers, it also acts as a common marketing, research and ...
The adoption of traditional plant breeding methods to enhance nutritional benefits of locally grown food crops such as Bambara groundnut is an economic and affordable strategy to decrease malnutrition in Africa. [27] The form and colour of Bambara groundnut were all important factors to optimize the best extraction yield of phytochemicals ...
Omo tuo with groundnut soup and meat. Omo tuo (Twi: ɛmo tuo; "rice balls") is a Ghanaian staple food made with rice.Mostly, "broken rice" or long grain rice broken into smaller pieces is used.
Esoko began as TradeNet in 2005 with the encouragement of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, [1] and in partnership with FoodNet [2] in Uganda. [citation needed]
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 .
Kuli-kuli is a common crispy snack in Ghana and many other parts of West Africa. [8] The ingredients and shapes used are not universal. In the northern part of the country, especially among the Dagbon people, kuli-kuli is made from the residue from groundnuts during the extraction of groundnut oil. [9]