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Farmer-Researcher Collaboration in Developing Cropping Practices that Involve the Complementary Use of Mechanical Tied Ridge and Fertilizer Technology for Sorghum in Burkina Faso

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

J. G. Nagy ,
H. W. Ohm  and
S. Sawadogo
J. G. Nagy
Affiliation:
Purdue University Farming Systems Unit, International Programs in Agriculture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
H. W. Ohm
Affiliation:
Purdue University Farming Systems Unit, International Programs in Agriculture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
S. Sawadogo
Affiliation:
Purdue University Farming Systems Unit, International Programs in Agriculture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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Summary

Specific soil fertility and water retention constraints limit increased crop production in the subsistence-oriented farming systems of Burkina Faso. Previous attempts to introduce apparently promising technologies based on research that had not directly involved the fanner and that had not benefited from farmer-feedback have been largely unsuccessful. Active farmer involvement can help to identify relevant constraints to production and to identify and modify technologies to make them viable. Formal and informal farmer surveys and farmer participation in field experiments have led to the development of potentially useful cropping practices involving the complementary use of mechanical tied ridge and fertilizer-based technology.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 161 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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