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Importance of Groundnut: Cultivation, Uses, and Benefits

Learn about the importance of groundnut cultivation and its various uses. Discover why groundnut is considered a nut and its significance as a cash crop and rotation crop. Explore the different products made from groundnut and its role in livestock feeding.

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Importance of Groundnut: Cultivation, Uses, and Benefits

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  1. Module I: About Groundnut Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics Lesson 1: Importance of Groundnut After successful completion ofthis Lesson, you have learned to answer: 1. Why groundnut cultivation is important? 2. Why groundnut is called as a nut? 3. What is the main use of groundnut? 4. What are the different uses of groundnut? 5. How groundnut is useful for livestock? 6. What are the different products made from groundnut? Course on Groundnut Production Practices

  2. Groundnut is one of the world’s fifteen leading food crops and cultivated throughout the world. It is among the most important foods in international trade. Groundnut is popularly known as peanut in many countries though it is more a pea (a leguminous plant) than a nut. But it is considered as nut because of its high nutritional value. It is less expensive and nourishing food.

  3. Groundnut is a cash crop and useful rotation crop. • It is easy to grow, withstands drought to some extent and so a choice crop for dry farming. • It is soil erosion resistant crop. • Being a legume crop it can fix atmospheric nitrogen. Thus maintains soil fertility.

  4. All parts of this plant can be commercially used. • The plant stalks are fed to cattle in the form of green, dried and silage. • Groundnut shell, haulms and hay are good fodder. • Groundnut cake is a good feed for livestock and it is also used as manure.

  5. Groundnut is consumed in many ways and various forms. • Primarily used as a vegetable cooking oil. • Kernels are used directly as food or snacks for human consumption. • A large number of food products are prepared from groundnuts - Boiled nuts, roasted nuts, salted nuts, groundnut milk, groundnut yogurt, groundnut bars, groundnut butter, groundnut cheese, bakery products etc.

  6. Module 1: About Groundnut Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics With this, the Lesson 1 on Importance of Groundnut in this Module concludes. In the next Lesson in this Module, you will learn briefly about the nutritional value of groundnut. Select Lesson 2 in Module I from the Course contents Course on Groundnut Production Practices

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