Field Activities Burkina Faso

Details: Created on Monday, 01 October 2012 08:54; Written by Erik van den Elsen

The following WHT were described with the WOCAT questionnaires

Country	Technology	Description	Picture
Burkina Faso	Ados	Large soil bund used in places where no rocks are available to make stone lines
Burkina Faso	Banka	Small pond about 8*12 m, depth > 2 m
Burkina Faso	Bouli	Large pond with diameter 30-40 m and depth > 6 m

The following WHT were selected for test-implementation

Zaï
Stones lines
Mango Ripper
Talya tray

The pictures below give impressions of the stakeholder workshop, which included a visit to the field (all pictures by Hamado Sawadogo).

A site for field implementation was selected, and WHT were implemented for testing. Monitoring is currently on-going. The figures below give some impressions.

Above: Experiments at Ziga (pictures by Hamado Sawadogo). Left: control; Right: Zai with microdosing and compost manure.

Above: Experiments at Somyaga (pictures by Hamado Sawadogo). Left: microdosing (zaï+compost manure+62kg.ha NPK); Right: doses recommended by extension service (Zaï+compost manure+100kg.ha NPK).