The Ghana Groundnut Working Group, a gathering of scientists, aggregators, farmers and others involved in the peanut value chain across Ghana met this month for the second annual conference.
The two-day meeting convened in Tamale, Ghana, 11-12 March at the Modern City Hotel.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut and David Jordan of North Carolina State University helped to support the event in its inaugural year, while a local committee has worked throughout the past several months to plan the 2020 gathering. Principal organizers include Mumuni Abudulai, chief research scientist for CSIR’s Savanna Agricultural Research Institute; George Mahama, an agronomist with SARI in Wa; Richard Akromah, professor at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Moses Mochiah, director of CSIR’s Crops Research Institute; and Jerry Nboyine of the CSIR.
The group’s mission is to share knowledge about research and to set priorities for future studies.
Over two days of meetings, the group heard research presentations from graduate students (some studying with Peanut Innovation Lab support), learned new strategies for controlling aflatoxin, held panel discussions about strengthening the value chain, and explored ways to improve and grow the group in the future.