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Fact sheet about soya bean and groundnut in Ghana
It is interesting to note that:
- Quarshie soya bean variety was released in 2003. Yield potential is 2.0-2.4 t/ ha, days to maturity is 110-115 days, resistant to pod shattering (up to 15 per cent shattering), relatively tolerant to low soil P, seed colour is cream, excellent seed quality, good seed storability, high and stable yield across many environments, tolerant to common soy[1]bean pests and diseases, relatively tolerant to low soil P and trap-crop for Striga hermonthica. It is suitable for Guinea and Sudan Savanna, and transitional zone. It can be processed for oil; can be used as meal for the animal feed industry; can be processed for human consumption and made into products including soy milk, soy flour, soy protein, tofu and many retail food products. Soybeans are used also in many non-food (industrial) products.
- Favour soya bean variety was released in 2012. It has high grain yield up to 3.5t/ha, has high leaf output, has high efficacy with artificial inoculants and it is taller than existing varieties: less losses with mechanical harvester. It is applicable to Guinea and Sudan Savanna, and transitional zone. It produces higher quality soymilk than existing varieties; used for kebab; fixed quantity of biological nitrogen into the soil.
- Suong-Pungun soya bean variety was released in 2012. Early-maturing (85-92 days) attribute, yield potential is 1.5-1.8 t/ ha, has high protein content (42-45 per cent), resistant to pod shattering (less than 5 per cent), excellent seed quality, good seed storability, high and stable yield across many environments, resistant to drought and tolerant to common soy[1]bean pests and diseases. It is suitable for Guinea and Sudan Savanna, and transitional zone. It can be processed for oil; can be used as meal for the animal feed industry; can be processed for human consumption and made into products including soy milk, soy flour, soy protein, tofu and many retail food products. Soybeans are used in many non-food (industrial) products.
- Songda soya bean variety was released in 2012. Maturity period is 110-115 days, yield potential is 1.8- 2.2 t/ ha, pod shattering score: up to 20 per cent, excellent trap-crop for S. hermonthica (as a trap crop) and days to 50 per cent flowering: 45 days. It is applicable to Guinea and Sudan Savanna, and transitional zone. It can be processed for oil; can be used as meal for the animal feed industry; can be processed for human consumption and made into products including soy milk, soy flour, soy protein, tofu and many retail food products. Soybeans are used in many non-food (industrial) products
- Afayak soya bean variety was released in 2012. Yield potential is 2.0-2.4 t/ ha, flower colour is purple, plant height is 40-45 cm, it has medium maturity attribute, resistant to pod shattering (up to 8 per cent shattering), above average tolerance to common soybean pests, resistant to pod shattering and has excellent seed quality. It is suitable for Guinea and Sudan Savanna, and transitional zone. It can be processed for oil; can be used as meal for the animal feed industry Processed for human consumption and made into products including soy milk, soy flour, soy protein, tofu and many retail food products. Soybeans are used in many non-food (industrial) products.
- Oboshie groundnut variety was released in 2012. Its seed colour is brown and potential yield is 2.6t/H. Oboshie matures from 105-110 days. It is applicable to Savannah, forest-savannah transition zone and semi deciduous forest. It has good flavor, sweet taste, confectionery, etc.
- Crops Pion groundnut variety was released in 2017. It is high-yielding and its potential yield is 2.8t/ha. Besides, it is tolerant to rosette and other foliar diseases, aflatoxin-tolerant, high oil content, and early-maturing. It is suitable for forest agro ecology. It can be used for making soup, for oil production while crop residues can be used for hay. Also, residue from oil processing is used as an animal feed and as a soil fertiliser.
- Crops Agbeyeye groundnut variety was released in 2017. Potential yield is 1.9- 2.3t/ha. It matures early, that is, between 90 and 95 days. Have high biomass, tolerant to rosette and other foliar diseases and has high oil content. Crops Agbeyeye is applicable to transition zone and Northern Ghana. It is used for making soup, for oil production while crop residues can be used for hay. Also, residue from oil processing is used as an animal feed and as a soil fertiliser.
- Crops nkatie (groundnut) variety was released in 2017. Potential yield is between 2.2 and 2.4. It matures early, that is, from 90-95 days. Have high biomass, tolerant to rosette and other foliar diseases, high oil content and bold red seed colour. It is suitable for transition zone and Northern Ghana. It is used for making soup, for oil production and crop residues can be used for hay. Also, residue from oil processing is used as an animal feed and as a soil fertiliser.
- Nkatesari groundnut variety was released in 2005. It matures in 115 days and has potential yield of 2.2 ton/ ha. Its oil content is 47 per cent, resistant to both early and late leaf spot disease and has pods yield of 500kg/ha. It is applicable to Guinea and Sudan Savanna. Nkatesari is used for groundnut paste, has better resistance to foliar disease, tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot disease and records low percentage of plants infected by rosette virus disease.
Source: Manual of Agricultural Technologies
developed by
CSIR, MAG and MoFA
Page 61-63 & 52-54
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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