Dung statt Brache - Moeglichkeiten der Dungwirtschaft am Beispiel der Savanne Westafrikas.
1985
Schleich K.
The increasing spread of commercial crops, as well as the high population growth cause diminishing availability of land and shortened fallow periods in many areas of West Africa. Connected with this trend are decreasing soil fertility, acidification of the ground, reduction of the organic substance and extensive signs of erosion. The spectrum of measures to counteract this development is a wide-fanned one. In areas where extensive livestock raising prevails besides agriculture it suggests itself to consider the systematic utilization of the continiously produced dung. The effects derived from this procedure would be of great importance for large parts of the land of the Sudan-Guinea Zone of West Africa to offset the high erosion level, the submarginal structure and the inferior ability to retain nutritional materials. Unfortunately, information is lacking on which importance is attributed in agriculture to cattle dung that is widely available in this area. Its present utilization, its application potential and possible restrictions to application have been the subject of a study carried out in the northern part of the Ivory Coast and based on empirical findings. The results of this study which are also applicable to other regions of the Sudan-Guinea zone that are similarly structured from the point of view of agricultural and economic conditions are being presented in this paper.
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