Groundnut
Overview
Groundnuts are a popular source of food throughout the world, including Tanzania. In many countries groundnuts are consumed as peanut butter or crushed and used for the groundnut oil or simply consumed as a confectionary snack roasted, salted or in sweets.
In other parts of the world they are boiled, either in the shell or unshelled. Groundnuts are produced in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, on sandy soils.
The production practices vary from highly sophisticated commercial ventures in the western world to more traditional cropping practices in third-world countries. Yields vary from about 400 kilograms to several tonnes per hectare depending on the production system and production area.