Assessment of Market Development Activities of Dantotsu in Dausa District of Rajasthan
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2020
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Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner (Rajasthan) 334006
Abstract
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea Linn.) a s an important
ranking 13th among the food crops and it as adopted
crop of global position
by Indian as a vegetable oil crop
during the middle - to - late nineteenth century. It was mostly distributed in the different
areas like tropical, sub-tropical and warm temperate zones of the world covering in over 80
countries. The limitst of commercial productions are between latitudes 40°N and
40°S. This crop as also known as peanut, monkeynut, goobernut and earthnut.
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spaniards introduced the name “mani” for groundnut found growing in Peru. An European
missionary, Bartolome Las Casas, who sailed in 1502 in Hispaniola (now, Haiti Dominican
Republic, West Indies) and traveled throughout the Spanish lands from 1510 to
1547, was the first to encounter the groundnut called, "mani", This name as still used in
Cuba and Spanish South America. A Calvinist missionary with the Huguenoot colony
foundfed in 1555 on the island in Rio de Janeiro bay, also encountered groundnut in this
region called, "manabi".
Theses confirm South American as the place of original
cultivation of groundnut and its wide distribution throughout the tropical and sub-tropical
areas before and at the time of discovery of America. Later, groundnut became known
to European naturalists early in 17th century.