Evaluation of Trait-based and Empirical Selections for Drought Resistance at ICRISAT Centre, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India

摘要

PEANUT IS CULTIVATED on 25,5 M ha worldwide with a total in-shell production of 35.1 million tons (Food & Agriculture Organisation of the UN 2001), Production of peanut is concentrated in developing countries of Asia and Africa, which account for 95 per cent of the world peanut area and about 93 per cent of total production Peanut is grown in these countries mostly by smallholders under rain-fed conditions with almost no inputs other than land and labour. More than 80 per cent of the world's peanut production comes from rain-fed agriculture where productivity is much lower (<1.0 t/ha) than the developed world (2.9 t/ha).