Peanut growing in the Markham Valley

Abstract

The area under peanuts in the Markham Valley is expanding rapidly with individual smallholders having as much as 40 hectares of the
crop at any one time. While mechanised land preparation and sowing is necessary for this expansion, improved management techniques must be considered if productivity is to be maintained and growers are to get good returns for their efforts. Variety and seed quality, sowing rate and date, rust control, rotation cropping and crop storage are important.