Innovations
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Downloadable innovation sheets below (in French)
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A look back at 60 years of cotton breeding in Cameroon: What has been the genetic gain?
2017 ITKInnovation-21-Cameroun Selection.pdf (683 Ko)
The seed-cotton yield in Cameroon has been declining since the 1980s. In this context, we estimated the contribution of the varietal material to this phenomenon through an ex-post evaluation of 60 years of cotton breeding.
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Bare Root Cotton Seedlings - China
ITKInnovation-03 Chine Transplantation de cotonniers a racines nues.pdf (967 Ko)
In China, the issues of limited arable land and competition between crops are crucial to the continuation of cotton cropping. The transplanting technique has made this possible, especially in the provinces of the Yangtze River Valley, by installing the crop immediately after the harvest of a winter cereal.
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Combined irrigation and inputs application - China
ITKInnovation-05 Chine Irrigation et application simultanées d'intrants.pdf (465 Ko)
In China, the North-West region has become the main cotton-growing region in the last decade. Production is strictly irrigated in an arid zone, using the melting snows of the surrounding mountains. The position of the North-West in cotton production will be further strengthened by the disenchantment with cotton cultivation in the Yellow and Yangtze River valleys.
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Composting in heaps
ITKInnovation-19-Burkina Faso Compostage en tas.pdf (1 Mo)
Further popularization of the technique of organic manure production in manure pits, in order to restore soil organic fertility on farms, came up against digging difficulties (lack of equipment and manpower, laborious work), pit stabilization (high cost of cement) and removal of the manure produced (lack of equipment, laborious work). Burning stalks used to be the way of disposing of them after harvest. Composting in heaps is an interesting alternative.
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Contribution made by seed cotton and fibre measurement and characterisation to ginning performance
ITKInnovation-20-Afrique de l'Ouest_Quatité Egrenage.pdf (694 Ko)
If the specific impact of ginning on the 'quality' of the fibres produced (by quality, we mean all or part of the technological characteristics that might be affected by ginning) is to be avoided and remedied where necessary, it has to be possible to actually measure that specific impact.
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Contribution of ICT to the Data Monitoring and Evaluation Services
ITKInnovation-13-Apport des TIC pour les cellules suivi-évaluation.pdf (266 Ko)
The cotton companies Sodecoton (Cameroon) and Sodefitex (Senegal) used to handle large amounts of data via their data monitoring and evaluation units. However, processing data that were often unstructured was seldom conducted right up to the stage of providing dashboards for decision-making. The data monitoring and evaluation services have been upgraded accordingly.
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Correcting the acidity of tropical ferruginous soils under cultivation - North Cameroon
ITKInnovation-17-Nord Cameroun Redressement acidité.pdf (249 Ko)
Ferruginous soils account for a large share of the soils cultivated in North Cameroon and more generally in sub-Saharan Africa. Soil acidification is a phenomenon likely to limit the production obtained in some fields that have been cultivated for a long time and/or a reason to stop farming them.
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Cotton topping and pruning - China
ITKInnovation-09 Chine Topping&pruning.pdf (244 Ko)
Between the sowing and harvest dates, it is crucial to control the cotton cycle in China in order to establish the crop within the favourable climatic period, so as to ensure high yields for farmer profitability.
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Direct-sowing no-till cropping systems - North Cameroon
ITKInnovation-16-Cameroun SCV.pdf (176 Ko)
Direct-sowing no-till cropping systems were developed in Brazil to cope with the decline in soil fertility due to massive erosion worsened by systematic ploughing with diskers.
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Double planting row - Ivory Coast
ITKInnovation-15-Cote dIvoire double rang.pdf (462 Ko)
The concept of double planting rows was born in the Ivory Coast in 2007. From that date up to 2015, numerous tests were carried out in order to define the correct inner spacing of the double row and the minimum number of hoeing rounds in addition to chemical weeding when the field is planted in double rows.
