Well, I finally made it back to the office after a couple of weeks on the road in Asia. Lots to talk about, of course, but it will have to wait for a while because I have too much catching up at work, and then I’ll be back home in Nairobi for the whole of August. But I can’t resist posting one little thing. What you see here is Bambara groundnut being sold in a street market in Bogor, Indonesia, where it is know as, wait for it, “kacang Bogor”, or Bogor peanut. This is the first time I’ve seen this crop outside Africa (inluding Madagascar). What prompted me to post about it is that I just saw an intriguing tweet about the crop from NRI:
Can #bambara nut be an ingredient for wonder food plumpynut? @NRInstitute & @McKnightFdn working in #Tanzania http://t.co/HXwLfqNf
— Ben Bennett (@Bennett123123) July 19, 2012
Wikipedia is clearly wrong about Bambara groundnut’s production areas. Though it does get the reference correct, it looks like it has reproduced the wrong map. But the correct one doesn’t seem to include Indonesia:
Mind you, it doesn’t include Madagascar either, where it is definitely an important crop, and from whence we even have germplasm, as Genesys reveals. I even collected it myself there, back in the day.
Oh, for decent crop distribution maps! Anyway, anyone have any other sightings of Vigna subterranean outside Africa/Madagascar?
Dear Dr. Luigi
Thanks for your notes and What you see here is Bambara groundnut being sold in a street market in Bogor, Indonesia,…
Kindly، inform you
this crop is sold in Iraq in the main a streets market in
(Baghdad )before 50 year ago and till now , the people like to buy it and I have some Accessions at Iraqi gene bank.
sanaa