Which Country In West Africa Is A Major Exporter Of Groundnut? In Gambia, groundnut is the principal export crop constituting 66 percent of the earnings from agricultural exports. Its production, handling, processing and marketing employ about 70 percent of the active labor force. On average, 45 percent of the agricultural land is annually allocated to
Which Part Of The Groundnut We Will Eat? Mature peanut includes hard outer shell, cotyledons the main inner edible part or fruit, seed coat is a fine paper like covering over the cotyledons then comes radicle root of embryo at the base of the cotyledons which is snapped off and lastly comes plumule shoot of
Why Do Groundnuts Grow Underground? Peanut legumes have the peculiar habit of ripening underground, a phenomenon known as geocarpy. After pollination and the withering of the flower, an unusual stalklike structure called a peg grows from the base of the flower toward the soil. Are peanuts the only nut that grows underground? Not so fast.