Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Rainfall scarcity and variability are known major constraints to crop production in Sahelian region of West Africa. This situation is often aggravated by the high velocity winds that precede even, rainfall event. This creates unfavorable crop production leading to very low yields. Farmers rarely produce enough to agricultural products to pay for the investment they make in agricultural inputs, such as inorganic fertilizers, manure, and small farm machinery and this is leading farmers into poverty. This cycle of poverty is perpetrated due to the fact that farmers have not been using appropriate technologies that will mitigate the effects of the severe climatic and other social conditions and that are also adapted to the different ecosystems. This paper reports on a model that has been developed, tested and adapted to the Saria region of Burkina Faso that reduces agricultural production risks and increases farmers' incomes. This model is flexible and may be applied at the local and regional levels to produce thematic maps that could be used by farmers and agricultural policy makers for sustainable crop production. The required inputs for this model include the (1) soil parameters, depth, texture, bulk density, surface micro morphology and water stock; (2) Climatic factors such as rainfall, potential evapotranspiration, relative humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed; and (3) cultural operations including planting date, length of growing season, crop coefficients. These data are used to map out homogenous land management units and specific production management recommendations are made for each land management unit. Products from this model provide useful information that will help make judicious choice of production technologies for the region. Crop production will be optimized and this will break the cycle of farmer poverty. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2005 | 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525946 | Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
investments,crops,agricultural production,geographic information systems,production,hydrology,remote sensing,wind speed | Geographic information system,Poverty,Environmental resource management,Wind speed,Computer science,Remote sensing,Agricultural productivity | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
8 | 2153-6996 | 0-7803-9050-4 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Barro | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jean-Baptiste S. Taonda | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Manu, A. | 3 | 1 | 2.29 |
| Tommy L. Coleman | 4 | 6 | 4.29 |