Inventory of pesticides use in cashew nuts orchards in the north of Côte D'Ivoire
International Journal of Development Research
Inventory of pesticides use in cashew nuts orchards in the north of Côte D'Ivoire
Received 14th August, 2020; Received in revised form 11th September, 2020; Accepted 26th October, 2020; Published online 24th November, 2020
Copyright © 2020, SORO Sibirina et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The majority of cashew farmers in the North of Cote d’Ivoire use many types of pesticides to control pests and diseases that attack this crop. This utilization doesn’t respect good agricultural practices. Study was based on the use of questionnaires and interviews that were conducted in Poro (Korhogo), Tchologo (Ferké), Bagoué (Boundiali) Gbêkê (Bouaké) and Gontougo (Bondoukou) Districts. It investigates farmer’s practices on cashew pest management using pesticides and related orchards density and seeds origin. The types of products used by the farmers in the study areas were herbicides (70%) and insecticides (29%) and fungicides (1%). About a 60% of the farmers which not applied pesticides, up to 10% used 3 applications by year. This study show that the government can develop a tool to quantify the cost of pesticide in Northern Cote d’Ivoire and formulate a text of good phytosanitary practices for cashew nuts.
