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PEANUT
Introduction
India along with china accounts for half of the world's peanut production. Peanut is used as food- stuff (cooking oil, raw seeds, roasted, boiled) Animal feed (pressings, seeds, green material, straw) Industrial raw material (soap, detergent, cosmetics). The peanut seed contains 40-50% fat, 20-50% protein, 10-20% carbohydrate and all these utilities and characteristics add to the demand of peanut in the world market. |