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Effects of Methods of Planting Groundnuts in the Sudan Gezira

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Idris M. Nur
Affiliation:
Gezira Research Station, Wad Medani, Sudan
Ali A. E. Gasim
Affiliation:
Gezira Research Station, Wad Medani, Sudan

Summary

Studies to determine the effect of planting unshelled pods, using groundnut varieties with different shell thicknesses, indicated that emergence and yield were suppressed by planting unshelled pods. Depth of sowing, and soaking pods in water prior to planting, had limited effects.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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