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Post-Harvest Handling and Storage of Bambara Groundnut

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Bambara groundnut is a hard-to-cook underutilised pulse crop that originated from Africa and now domiciled in many parts of the world. The full potential of the crop can only be harnessed when proper post-harvest handling and storage are practiced. In this chapter, some of these post-harvest handling and storage practices which starts from on-farm drying to threshing, winnowing, milling as well as roasting, germination and malting, and fermentation are discussed. These have been documented to affect the final quality of the grain and their by-products as well as their economic benefits and importance. It is recommended that government and agricultural organizations either invest in new equipment or the adaptation of old equipment to help improve efficiencies in these practices for increased productivity in the BGN value chain so that the inherent opportunities that abound in the commercialisation of the crop can be adequately harnessed..

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Obilana, A.O., George, T.T. (2021). Post-Harvest Handling and Storage of Bambara Groundnut. In: Oyeyinka, S.A., Ade-Omowaye, B.I.O. (eds) Food and Potential Industrial Applications of Bambara Groundnut. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73920-1_3

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