Dissemination of Agricultural Input Packages in Pr-Pica Countries: Technical Summary Report
| Date of acession | 2024-07-24T08:02:42Z | |
| Date of availability | 2024-07-24T08:02:42Z | |
| Date of issue | 2023-01 | |
| Abstract | The Regional Program for Integrated Cotton Production in Africa (PR-PICA) is an association of eight (08) cotton producing countries in West and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Chad and Togo). Within the framework of activities to optimize cotton production in Africa, PR-PICA and the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) signed a grant agreement N° EnG.001-22 at the end of March 2022, for the dissemination of Agricultural Input Packages (AIPs) in the Program's member countries, during the 2022/2023 season. This partnership program with IFDC, made possible by funding from USAID through its West Africa Mission (USAID/WA), will allow for the dissemination of new production strategies for cotton and its associated crops, through the training of cotton company advisory support agents and producers and by providing them with appropriate didactic tools. In addition, it should allow for an update of the database of the Fertilizer and Seed Recommendation Map for West Africa and Chad (FeSeRWAM) with respect to cotton. The implementation of the project started with the training of researchers (2 per country) through a regional workshop. These researchers then trained the trainers of the cotton companies and interprofessions. Each trainer in turn trained at least 10 extension/management agents in his or her zone. These trained agents were then responsible for disseminating the AIPs to leading producers and to producers at the grassroots level. This report summarizes these different training courses, organized in the PR-PICA countries. | |
| URL | https://hub.ifdc.org/handle/20.500.14297/3125 | |
| Language | en | |
| Subject | Agricultural Inputs | |
| Title | Dissemination of Agricultural Input Packages in Pr-Pica Countries: Technical Summary Report |