Sustainable Cotton: Integrated Pest and Soil Fertility Management

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Sustainable Cotton Integrated Pest and Soil
Fertility Management

• H. Breman, C. Gaborel, M. Vaissayre
• R. Vogelsperger

Proposal IFDC, CIRAD and West African Partners
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Sustainable Cotton Integrated Pest and Soil
Fertility Management

• Cotton production costs
• Integrated soil fertility management
• Integrated pest management
• More efficient input use 50 increase of
  farmers revenues

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Production costs external inputs

Gross value 328 Euro/ha value corrected for
inputs 193 Euro/ha
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Integrated Soil Fertility Management effect of
integrated use of fertilizer and soil amendments
improves in time

• Environmental and Economic Benefits
• gt10 years fallow
  depleted soil SFI package
• nutrient recovery () 35 25 70
• yield increase (kg/ha) 900 650 1800
• RVC 1.6 1.2
  3.2
• RVC value maize / costs fertiliser

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Integrated soil fertility management

• Present yield, potential yield and biological
  production 1150, 2500 450 kg/ha
• Improved fertilizer use efficiency
• gt 200 kg/ha extra or gt 76 Euro/ha extra

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Integrated pest management

• Best practices
• resistant varieties
• trap-crops naturel ennemies
• selectivity
• thresholds
• defoliation
• soil fertily

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Integrated pest management

• Treatment only when required
• Costs 17 29 Euro/ha less, revenue equally higher

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A proposal50 increase of revenue decreased
environmental risks

• Participatory integration and up scaling of
  integrated soil fertility and pest management

• stakeholder platforms
• extension and promotion material
• enabling socio-economic and policy environment
  reinforcement of cotton companies and rural
  develop projects
• training of trainers, in context
• pilot platforms/projects

MIR West African inputs market cotton
inputs emergency plan
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Enabling socio-economic and policy environments
Governments and donor investments in

• soil improvement a Marshall Plan
• research

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