Groundnuts rank second to beans in legumes grown in Uganda and shelling them at both household level and for small-scale commercial farmers often requires them to take the products at a nearby ...

(CNN)-- It was a woman's raw, bleeding hands that led Jock Brandis to make a promise. In 2002, Brandis was helping a friend repair a water treatment system in a Mali, Africa, village. There, he ...

The most technologically advanced peanut-shelling facility in the world is scheduled to begin operations in Santee in about 12 months.

LITTLE ROCK — Farmers began to reintroduce peanuts into sandy, row crop fields in several parts of Northeast Arkansas in 2010. Through the years, the number of acres has steadily grown and that has ...

Be careful what kinds of promises you make. That's a warning you might get from Jock Brandis, whose life was changed after he promised some African women he'd help them find a better way to shell ...