AGC

African Groundnut Council

AOAC

Association of Official Agricultural Chemists

AICRP (G)

All India Coordinated Research Project on groundnut

ADMARC

Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation

PCM

Protein Calorie Malnutrition

APREA

The America Peanut Research and Education USA

USD

United States of America

CAC

Codex Alimentarious Committee

CAB

Common Wealth Agricultural Bureaux

cm

Centimetre

CIAE

Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, (ICAR) Bhopal, India

DOR

Directorate of Oilseed Research (ICAR)

DMI

Department of Marketing Inspection

EEC

European Economic Comm unity

EMS

Ethyl Methane Sulphonate

FDA

Food and Dairy Administration

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAA

Free Fatty Acids

fpm

Feet per minute

FAME

Fatty Acid Methyl Easter

GROFED

Gujart Groundnut Growers Federation

GATT

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GOI

Government of India

GPMB

Ghana Produce Marketing Board

GFDC

Ghana Food Distribution Corporation

hp

Horse Power

ha

Hectare

hr

Hours

HPS

Hand Picked and Selected

ILO

International Labour Organization

IOPEA

Indian Oilseeds Producers Export Agency

ICRISAT

International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid

IMF

International Monetary Fund

ICAR

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

IPM

Integrated Pest Management

IFTM

Instron Food Testing Machine

Kg

Kilogram

LDL

Low Density Lipoproteins

LSK

Loosed Shelled Kernel

m

Metre

Mt

Metric tones

NRCG

National Research Centre for Groundnut, Junagadh, India

NSPRI

Nigerian Stored Product Research Institute

NGOs

Non Government Organizations

NARS

National Agriculture Research Scientists Team

NARP

National Agriculture Research Project

NDDB

National Dairy Development Board, Anand, India

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

O/L

Oilec and linolic acids ratio

RNA

Ribonucleic acid

rpm

Revolution per minute

Sec

Second

SAT

Semi-Arid tropics

SONACOS

Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Oléagineux du Sénégal

TMOP

Technology Mission on Oilseeds and Pulses

UK

United Kingdom

UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNICEF

United Nations and International Children's Education Fund

WHO

World Health Organization

W.b.

Wet weight basis