The fact that the region's terrain and rainfall were totally inappropriate for growing groundnuts, as well as the project's ultimate cost and failure, led to the scheme being popularly seen as a symbol of government failure in late colonial Africa.
事實上，該地區的地形和降雨完全不適宜種植花生，以及項目的最終成本和失敗，導致該計劃普遍被視為是殖民非洲後期政治失敗的象徵。