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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Tabo, R
creators_name: Bationo, A
creators_name: Amadou, B
creators_name: Hassane, O
creators_name: Diallo, M K
creators_name: Ndjeunga, J
creators_name: et al, .
icrisatcreators_name: Hassane, O
icrisatcreators_name: Diallo, M K
icrisatcreators_name: Ndjeunga, J
icrisatcreators_name: et al, .
affiliation: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa(Accra)
affiliation: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa(Accra)
affiliation: FAO Projet Intrants(Niamey)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Niamey)
country: Ghana
country: Niger
title: Fertilizer microdosing and “Warrantage” or inventory credit system to improve food security and farmers’ income in West Africa
ispublished: pub
subjects: S1.5
subjects: s1.4
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Farmer field schools; Fertilizer microdosing; Millet; Participatory approach; Sorghum; Warrantage or inventory credit system
abstract: The fertilizer microdosing technology deals with the application of small quantities of fertilizers in the planting hole, thereby increasing fertilizer use efficiency and yields while minimizing input costs. In drought years, microdosing also performs well, because larger root systems are more efficient at finding water, and it hastens crop maturity, avoiding late-season drought. Recent research found that solving the soil fertility problem unleashes the yield potential of improved millet varieties, generating an additional grain yield of nearly the same quantity. Recognizing that liquidity constraints often prevent farmers from intensifying their production system, the warrantage or inventory credit system helps to remove barriers to the adoption of soil fertility restoration. Using a participatory approach through a network of partners from the National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), farmers and farmer groups and other international agricultural research centres, the microdosing technology and the warrantage system have been demonstrated and promoted in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger during the past few years with encouraging results. Sorghum and millet yields increased by up to 120%, and farmers’ incomes went up by 130% when microdosing was combined with the warrantage system. This chapter highlights the outstanding past results and the ongoing efforts to further scale up the technology using Farmer field schools (FFS) and demonstrations, capacity and institutional strengthening, private sector linkages and crop diversification amongst other approaches
date: 2011
date_type: published
series: Exploring the Scientific Facts
publisher: Springer
place_of_pub: Netherlands
pagerange: 113-121
pages: 1363
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-90-481-2541-8
book_title: Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa
editors_name: Bationo, A
editors_name: Waswa, B
editors_name: Okeyo, J M
editors_name: et al, .
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2543-2_10
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citation:   Tabo, R and Bationo, A and Amadou, B and Hassane, O and Diallo, M K and Ndjeunga, J and et al, .  (2011) Fertilizer microdosing and “Warrantage” or inventory credit system to improve food security and farmers’ income in West Africa.   In:  Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa.   Exploring the Scientific Facts .  Springer, Netherlands, pp. 113-121.  ISBN 978-90-481-2541-8     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/7014/1/Innovations%20as%20Key%20to%20the%20Green%20Revolution%20in%20Africa_113-121_2011.pdf