Affiliation(s)
1. College of Agriculture, Food & Sustainable Development, Mariano Marcos State University, Dingras Campus 2913, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
2. Crop Research Laboratory, Mariano Marcos State University, City of Batac 2906, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
ABSTRACT
Peanut or ground nut (Arachis
hypogea L.) is one of the food
legumes with commercial importance in the Philippines grown by farmers (with small landholdings) in most parts of the country.
However, one of the major constraints to peanut is the lack of supply of good
stocks coupled with modern production technology. To alleviate this problem
especially in those areas planted to this crop is the development of improved lines, their evaluation to different
locations and their maintenance for sustained production. Thus, the project
aimed to adapt, evaluate, select and identify high yielding, disease-resistant
and other desirable characters of peanut in northeastern Philippines particularly at
Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), Dingras, Ilocos
Norte, conducted from July 2014 to May 2015. The different lines of peanut were arranged in a randomized complete
block design (RCBD) replicated four times. Optimum cultural requirements from
planting to harvesting were followed to permit expressions of the genetic
potential of the different lines of the crop. During wet and dry season trials, results revealed significant
differences in all treatments relative to pod and seed yield, seed size,
shelling percentage and plant height except number of pods per plant, and days
to flower and mature. The lines ICGV 00337,
ICGV 95111, and ICGV 98371 out yielded the remaining
seven peanut lines registering a pod yield of 1,860 to 1,020 kg/ha and had a
yield advantage of 73% to 58.9%,
respectively over the check variety Ilocos Red. Growing peanut in northeastern Philippines
can approximately give an income ranging from Php87,120 to Php93,960 per
hectare with a benefit/cost ratio of 2.02 to 2.19.
KEYWORDS
Commercial importance, food legumes, ground nut, promising lines.
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