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Abstract: A workshop on technical and policy issues for strengthening the market for peanuts was conducted on June 3, 1998 and attended by forty-seven participants from the government and private sectors. Private sector participants were represented by twelve peanut processors and those from the government sector came from thirteen government agencies and institutions. The workshop covered six topics as follows: 1) Introduction on the Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program, 2) Government Program for Agribusiness Investment, 3) Prevailing Government Programs and Policies on Peanut Production and Marketing, 4) Statistics of the Peanut Industry: Production, Imports and Exports, and Profile of Peanut Industries, 5) Problems of Peanut Processors, and 6) Results of the Survey on the Technical Issues and Constraints of Peanut Processors. The highlight of the workshop was an open forum.