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Peanut, also known as ground nuts are consumed by many people around the world, being characterized by the impressed nutritive value. The high content of minerals like zinc, magnesium, copper, potassium or phosphorus, also fibers and antioxidants make peanuts a source of nutrients that can help the human body to remain healthy and fit. Today, the importance of peanuts increased a lot; they are one of the most important crops in the world, being used in food, in cosmetics and industry. Peanuts breeding are conducted according to the seed destination. Peanuts that are intended for oil extraction must have a debarking rate more than 72% and oil content more than 50%. For the fresh or roasted peanuts for human nutrition the content of oil should be less than 45% and weight more than 150gr/100 pods. According to the agronomic particularities peanuts have reduced requirements to soil (good results on sandy soil), require smaller amounts of fertilizers, enriches the soil with nitrogen (above 100kg/ha) due to bacterial nodules on the roots.