The survey data were carried out in March 2023 using a collective interview guide with female producers in the village of Tintilou/Pousghin. A survey carried out in March 2023 made it possible to collect qualitative data, using a collective interview guide with female market gardeners, to identify the crops grown, and to identify the total number of female producers in the many market gardening areas around the concessions. The quantitative data come from the questionnaire administered to the sample of 25 female producers drawn at random, i.e. 80 married women out of a total of 87 and 07
widows out of a total of 22 who were surveyed
Among the 35 women, 25 also own thailand telegram data individual market gardens. Widows are heads of household and generally bear the entire cost of their children, both nutritional and educational.RESULTS2.1. General characteristics of the sample
The majority of female producers (40%) are between 27 and 40 years old; 30% are between 40 and 50 years old; 20% are between 50 and 77 and 10% are under 30 years old.
They are mostly uneducated (63%); 15 women (33.3%) have been taught to read and write in the local Mooré language and only one woman has attended primary school. There are 14 women who have been practicing market gardening for more than 15 years, or 40%, the others have between email marketing strategies for ecommerce – doppler 15 and 20 years of seniority in the profession. Despite this observed seniority, 93% of women have never received training in market gardening. Finally, all women practice market gardening on family line data land because it belongs to them.
2.2. Major difficulties of the women of Tintilou/Pousghin
The women of Tintilou/Pousghin have around the concessions at least twenty (20) traditional makeshift wells which ensure the watering of their market gardening activity using scoops and watering cans for irrigation. “Traditional wells are listed in the perimeters. According to Mrs. KABRE: “We are very determined in our market gardening activities which provide us with many things for ourselves, our children and our husbands. Unfortunately our activities are slowed down by the lack of water from the month of February with the drying up of the wells”, See photo n°3 below.
Photo No. 3: Two (02) wells in very advanced drying up or even dried up
Source: Jérôme COMPAORE March 2023.
Two of the twenty or so traditional makeshift wells dried
More than twenty traditional wells made by their husbands surround the concessions but from February, the wells dry up putting the good ladies in production difficulties. Each woman has made an individual traditional well whose cost varies between 20,000 and 30,000F. All the women have as an exordium, scoops. In general, these are empty 20-liter cans that are transformed in an artisanal way into scoops-watering cans.
2.3. Low use of inputs due to lack of financial means
The seeds used are obtained by purchase but some women produce them. Three types of fertilizers are used, NPK, urea and manure. The quantities used vary according to the areas exploited and their financial capacity. However, it appears that in the majority of cases, the quantities of NPK and urea used are low, i.e. less than 10kg/woman. For these two inputs, purchases are made in cash in 77% of cases. For the use of manure, only one woman has a manure pit. However, almost all women (90%) manage to obtain manure by collecting animal excreta in the bush, on cattle tracks and grazing areas. Depending on the quantity of manure thus obtained,
they buy an additional 1 to 4 cartloads.
CONCLUSIONThe study reveals that women in the village
of Tintilou/Pousghin encounter enormous technical and financial difficulties in practicing market gardening. Also, the lack of financial means does not give them the possibility
of expanding their activity. Efforts to support the mobilization of water resources, including drilling, large-diameter wells and boulis,
are necessary. Also, an improvement in the modernization of equipment,
the provision of cultivable plots and the literacy of women would be a greater advance in their production activities. Finally, the Komki Ipala
Communal authorities must play the role of leadership which remains
its sovereign role in the successful implementation of the market gardening activity for the benefit of the
of Tintilou / Pousghin and meet the challenges of the moment.
Jérôme COMPAORE1 ; Joachim BONKOUNGOU2 ; Safiata KIMDE3
– Institute of the Environment and Agricultural Research, National Center for
Scientific and Technological Research
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