eprintid: 11731
rev_number: 11
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creators_name: Sogoba, B
creators_name: Traoré, B
creators_name: Safia, A
creators_name: Samaké, O B
creators_name: Dembélé, G
creators_name: Diallo, S
creators_name: Kaboré, R
creators_name: Benié, G B
creators_name: Zougmoré, R B
creators_name: Goïta, K
icrisatcreators_name: Traoré, B
icrisatcreators_name: Zougmoré, R B
affiliation: Centre D’Applications et de Recherches en TéléDétection (CARTEL), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
affiliation: ONG AMEDD (Association Malienne d’Éveil au Développement Durable) Darsalam II-Route de Ségou, Koutiala, Mali
affiliation: ICRISAT (Niamey)
affiliation: Institut D’Economie Rurale (IER)-Mali, Bamako
affiliation: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), ICRISAT West and Central Africa O�ce, Bamako
country: Canada
country: Mali
country: Niger
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
ispublished: pub
subjects: GL1
subjects: cp
subjects: s61
divisions: CRPS1
crps: crp1.11
full_text_status: public
keywords: Intercropping, Cropping systems, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millet and sorghum, Diversification
note: We acknowledge and thank the McKnight foundation for supporting the farmer’s knowledge
project in Mali and giving us the opportunity to conduct this research. Support from the Natural Science and
Engineering Research Council (NSEC) of Canada is fully acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge the
support of the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Program of the CGIAR. Thanks also to the three reviewers for their detailed comments that helped us to improve the manuscript.
abstract: 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.
date: 2020-06
date_type: published
publication: Agriculture (TSI)
volume: 10
number: 6
publisher: MDPI
pagerange: 1-15
id_number: doi:10.3390/agriculture10060214
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2077-0472
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10060214
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=10.3390%2Fagriculture10060214&btnG=
related_url_type: pub
funders: McKnight foundation
citation:   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     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11731/1/agriculture-10-00214.pdf