AP: Crops Groundnut

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Crop Combination and Crop Diversification

Groundnuts

Leguminous plant. -Originated in Brazil
Warm temperature and light to moderate rainfall is required (38cm in coastal area, with high humidity and 6090 cm in drier interior region)
Grown in seasonally dry tropical and subtropical climates
Savanna of West Africa, monsoonal climates of India and China, as well as in Southern USA
In West Africa, it is grown in rotation or intercropped with millet and Guinea corn by peasant farmers.
Senegal has some large mechanized farms -In USA, the groundnuts are grown in the same regions as cotton, which also yields oilseeds.