The Ghana Groundnut Working Group held its 2024 meeting in Tamale on 10 and 11 October, after postponing the gathering earlier this year due to the unexpected death of an important member. Moses B. Mochiah, the director of the Crops Research Institute, collapsed and died in July while working with graduate students. An entomologist, Mochiah was part of research teams that improved IPM, production practices and varieties to make farmers more productive and food more plentiful. He served at CRI for more than 20 years.
The theme of this year’s GGWG meeting was “Farmer and consumer responsive peanut research to meet market demands.”
The two-day meeting highlighted advances in variety development, production practices and aflatoxin detection over the past year, early generation groundnut seed marketing, nutritional characterization and development of high oleic lines, the fight against Groundnut Rosette Disease and more.
Thirty-five scientists attended the two-day meeting at the Mariam Hotel in Tamale.
