Peanut
📍 EritreaClick a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.
Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .
Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .
Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.
Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .
Where Peanut grows in Eritrea
Moist lowland
South western Eritrea lower part of eastern escarpment. Altitude: 500 - 1600 m. Relief: Undulating to rolling plains and ridges . Soil: Cambisols, vertisols, fluvisoks, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): 500 - 800 mm. Temperature (Mean): 21 - 28ºC
Moist lowland
South western Eritrea lower part of eastern escarpment. Altitude: 500 - 1600 m. Relief: Undulating to rolling plains and ridges . Soil: Cambisols, vertisols, fluvisoks, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): 500 - 800 mm. Temperature (Mean): 21 - 28ºC
Moist lowland
South western Eritrea lower part of eastern escarpment. Altitude: 500 - 1600 m. Relief: Undulating to rolling plains and ridges . Soil: Cambisols, vertisols, fluvisoks, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): 500 - 800 mm. Temperature (Mean): 21 - 28ºC
Moist lowland
South western Eritrea lower part of eastern escarpment. Altitude: 500 - 1600 m. Relief: Undulating to rolling plains and ridges . Soil: Cambisols, vertisols, fluvisoks, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): 500 - 800 mm. Temperature (Mean): 21 - 28ºC
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