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Abstract                 Volume:3  Issue-7  Year-2016          Original Research Articles

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Impact of the Management of Sandy Soil Fertilization Practices on the Yield of the Intercropping Pearl Millet-Cowpea and on Farmer Income in the Est Sahelian Zone of Mali
Diakalia Sogodogo1*, Bakary Y. Coulibaly2, Béjamé Coulibaly3, Sara Togo4, Marie L. Samaké4, Oumar Coumaré5 and Jacques Togo5
1Agronome système, Chef ESPGRN/SRA Cinzana, Mali
2DEA agronomie, ESPGRN/SRA Cinzana, Mali
3Agronome Gestion Intégrée de la Fertilité des Sols, ESPGRN/Cinzana, Mali
4M.Sc. Gestion Intégrée de la Fertilité des Sols, ESPGRN/Cinzana, Mali
5Agronomes vulgarisateurs, AOPP Bamako et Mopti, Mali
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

In the plain of SENO located in the Sahelian Est zone of Mali, farmers grow mainly pearl millet intercropped with cowpea on Sandy-loam soils. In order to improve yields of these crops, farmer apex organization, the association of professional farmer organizations of Mopti has conducted demonstrations on the package of technologies in pioneer farmers’ fields. One study was undertaken in this area to assess the impact of this technology package on crop yields             and farmer income. The investigations concerned 25% of 200 producers in the area where 7 farmers were from the control village, 18 and 15 from the first and the second scaling out villages, 10 from the village test.  Crop yields and net benefit have proportionally varied according to the increase of technical package contents. The fertilizer option in Bérély was one dominated treatment. The marginal rate of return was 106% and 87% in the scaling out village of Anakana and the village test of Téna respectively. Referring to the minimum marginal rate of return of 50%, all the tested packages are economically attractive. However huge efforts should be put in extension activities and agricultural input supply in order to reduce the costs that varied recorded in the test villages.

Keywords:

Intercropping system, Marginal rate of return, Net benefit, Scaling out

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Sogodogo, D., Coulibaly, B. Y., Coulibaly, B., Togo, S., Samaké, M. L., Coumaré, O., Togo, J., 2016. Impact of the management of sandy soil fertilization practices on the yield of the intercropping pearl millet-cowpea and on farmer income in the Est Sahelian zone of Mali.Int.J.Curr.Res.Biosci.Plantbiol. 3(7): 138-143. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.20546/ijcrbp.2016.307.019
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