Important use of some byproducts of groundnut Harvest // Continued harvest and marketing of our nuts

A happy new day to my fellow homesteaders. I hope we are all doing fine and well refreshed to continue with our farm activities with the break of the new day.

Yesterday we continued with our groundnut harvest. Remember I told you about how plucking groundnuts can be time-consuming? We spent the whole day on the farm plucking these nuts, but occasionally I was only following the needlework community to read through the various contents posted yesterday as a community moderator.

Even though we are about 10 people that went to the farm, we still couldn't complete the harvest. We have out 2 plots of the field yet to be harvested. This week will solely be dedicated to groundnut harvest until we are able to harvest and bring everything back home. This was the more reason we have wanted to hire more labor in order to hasten the work.

After harvesting, we also decided to sell off a bag of the nuts to market women who often cook, hawk, and sell fresh groundnuts to people. We needed the funds to cover up the cost of transporting the harvest home. A bag of groundnuts is sold for $37. This is what the 60-kg packaged bag of groundnuts for sale looks like.

With the money recovered, we will be able to use this to cover some of our famous expenses. Our rice farms need fertilizer, and our bean farms need pesticides. A bag of fertilizer that we will be needing for our rice farm will take more than half of the money already, and fertilizer is currently being sold at about $30, and each of the chemicals for the beans will not go for anything less than $3.

Above is the culprit associated with destroying some of our nuts. They are so many in the field and have been feasting on our nuts, that actually decreased our yield. Then again, another portion of the farm didn't produce well at all. They had produced immature pods with no seeds within.

I can't possibly say why this is so, but it is not uncommon to have empty groundnut pods like the one above.

There is another important aspect of the harvest that we could have used to make extra profits from

These groundnut plants of which we have plucked off all our harvest can be sold to cattle rearers; it is often an important protein meal for cows. While we were in the north, my mom made good profits selling them, and each time they seemed to be so large in number, we often dried the plant and preserved it into the dry seasons.

We have enjoyed raising our goats and feeding them to these back in the day. Rearing goat was easy and profitable. It was very important for farmers to rear animals along with growing food, such that whatever is left of harvest that cannot be useful to humans is fed to these animals. That system isn't just applicable here. The state we live in here does not provide a secured place for growing animals.
Each time we raise an animal, it ends up being stolen, and as much as I wish to rear animals, I cannot do this at a loss, knowing fully well that they will be stolen by thieves.

For now, we have all of these here and do not know what to do with these important byproducts of harvest.