The Cultivated Peanut or Ground nut(Arachis hypogaea L.) is grown throughout the tropics.Being an important oil and food crop, the present day production and productivity needs to be enhanced to meet the demands.But in the arid and semiarid regions, the Groundnut farmers are witnessing the adverse yield reduction due to biotic factors and abiotic constraints such as Salinity and Drought.Moreover the declining natural resources and distancing of technology gap also leads to a complex situation of rural disenchantment.In order to increase the yield parameters, a better understanding of the...