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On-Farm Evaluation on Yield and Economic Performance of Cereal-Cowpea Intercropping to Support the Smallholder Farming System in the Soudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali

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https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10060214
doi:10.3390/agriculture10060214
 
Title On-Farm Evaluation on Yield and Economic Performance of Cereal-Cowpea Intercropping to Support the Smallholder Farming System in the Soudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali
 
Creator Sogoba, B
Traoré, B
Safia, A
Samaké, O B
Dembélé, G
Diallo, S
Kaboré, R
Benié, G B
Zougmoré, R B
Goïta, K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Cowpea
Mali
 
Description Cereal-cowpea intercropping has become an integral part of the farming system in
Mali. Still, information is lacking regarding integrated benefits of the whole system, including
valuing of the biomass for facing the constraints of animal feedings. We used farmers’ learning
networks to evaluate performance of intercropping systems of millet-cowpea and sorghum-cowpea
in southern Mali. Our results showed that under intercropping, the grain yield obtained with
the wilibali (short maturing duration) variety was significantly higher than the yield obtained with
the sangaranka (long maturing duration) variety whether with millet (36%) or sorghum (48%),
corresponding, respectively, to an economic gain of XOF (West African CFA franc) 125 282/ha and
XOF 142 640/ha. While for biomass, the yield obtained with the sangaranka variety was significantly
higher by 50% and 60% to that of wilibali with an economic gain of XOF 286 526/ha (with millet) and
XOF 278 516/ha (with sorghum). Total gain obtained with the millet-cowpea system was significantly
greater than that obtained with the sorghum-cowpea system by 14%, and this stands irrespective of
the type of cowpea variety. Farmers prefer the grain for satisfying immediate food needs instead of
economic gains. These results represent an indication for farmer’s decision-making regarding cowpea
varieties selection especially for addressing household food security issues or feeding animals.
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2020-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11731/1/agriculture-10-00214.pdf
Sogoba, B and Traoré, B and Safia, A and Samaké, O B and Dembélé, G and Diallo, S and Kaboré, R and Benié, G B and Zougmoré, R B and Goïta, K (2020) On-Farm Evaluation on Yield and Economic Performance of Cereal-Cowpea Intercropping to Support the Smallholder Farming System in the Soudano-Sahelian Zone of Mali. Agriculture (TSI), 10 (6). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2077-0472