Final version of Tropical Legumes II Project Report for Phase 1 - icrisat

Enhancing Groundnut Productivity and
Production in Drought-Prone Areas of
West and Central Africa
Bonny Ntare, Farid Waliyar (ICRISAT-Mali); Jupiter Ndjeunga, Abdoulaye Diarra, Abdoulaye Amadou,
Ibro Abdoulaye (ICRISAT-Niger); Ondie Kodio, Youssouf Cisse (IER-Mali); Adamou Moutari, Marou
Assane Zarafi (INRAN-Niger); Candidus A Echekwu, Ben Ahmed, Lora Alabi (IAR -Ahmadu Bello
University- Nigeria); Mamoudou Togo (AOPP Systems-Mali); Karamako Sacko (EUCORD-Mali);
Issoufou Maizama (Alheri Seeds-Dogondoutchi) Niger - Sanussi Mohammed (Bayero University of
Kano-Nigeria), Balarabe Shehu (KNARDA-Nigeria); Mustapha Habib (KTARDA-Nigeria); Muhammad
A Adamu (JARDA-Nigeria)
Socio-Economics/Targeting
This report presents the achievements from September 2007 to August 2011 of TL II targeting the
promotion of groundnut varieties, building seed production and delivery systems and drawing lessons
from interventions in Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. During the last four years of TL II project implementation,
groundnut outlook (i.e. trends and market prospects) were studied and now better understood; project
sites have been thoroughly characterized and varieties and traits preferred by farmers have been
identified. Alternative seed supply systems have been characterized, tested and low cost and effective
systems identified. The TL II project has generated some positive outcomes. In Niger for example,
adoption of improved groundnut varieties has increased as a result of farmers’ exposure and access to
seed of improved varieties.
In addition, a total of four reports have been generated; these included:
a) A baseline report entitled “Characterizing village economies in major groundnut producing
countries in West Africa: Cases of Mali, Niger and Nigeria
b) Farmer preferences for groundnut traits and varieties in West Africa: Cases of Mali, Niger and
Nigeria
c) Outlook for groundnut trends and market prospects in West and Central Africa
d) Early diffusion of groundnut varieties in the Dosso region in Niger
A synopsis of results from the reports is presented below.
Outlook for groundnut trends and market prospects in Western
and Central Africa
Western and Central Africa lost its world groundnut production and export shares during the last four
decades. Groundnut production shares declined from 27% to 20% whereas groundnut oil export shares
decreased from 55% to 24%. China, the world’s leading producer, has increased its world shares by
4-fold from 10% to 38%. Argentina, the leading oil exporter, has doubled its world share from 12%
to 23%. Senegal remains the lead groundnut oil exporter (19% of world exports) in West and Central
Africa, followed by Nigeria (1.20 %). India is the lead exporter of groundnut cakes accounting for 65%
of the world total, followed by a distant second Senegal with 10% and Argentina with 6%. Exports for
confectionery groundnut increased by about 65% from 1979-81 to 2005-07 but most of this came from
Asian countries accounting for about 47% of world exports. West Africa’s contribution to confectionery
groundnut exports fell by half from 43,956 MT to 27,495 MT from 1979-81 to 2005-07 respectively.
Progress of Phase 1
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