In The World: A better way to beat around the bush

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many residents of New Longoro, a small village in the countryside of Ghana, are small-scale farmers, and one of the crops they grow is groundnuts - what we call peanuts. But harvesting and processing the nuts is a long and labor-intensive process, and the hardest part is the threshing - scraping the uprooted plants to release the pods containing the nuts. A better, faster way to thresh the nuts could enable each farmer to grow more of them and get them to market faster, thereby boosting their incomes.

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