Post harvest handling:Groundnuts

After the harvest, groundnuts pods are dried on the sun and, then, threshed and winnowed. Thereafter, groundnuts are sorted (Sorting aims at separating fully filled grains and unfilled or damaged ones and stored. Groundnuts are used in soups, vegetables or roasted and eaten as finger food. In addition, groundnuts are processed into various products such as cooking oil, peanut butter, ...