Agriculture Management Plan for Small Scale Farmer in Senegal : Case of Rice and Peanut Cultivation
Journal Title: International Journal of engineering Research and Applications - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 10
Abstract
Senegal is one of the best located and stable country in West Africa. It is bounded in the western part by the Atlantic Ocean (about 500 km of beach). Senegal belongs to the Sahelian Countries which is characterized by a long dry season (about 7 to 9 months) and a low rainfall. In this work our objective is to propose the best management plan for the small scale farmer specialized in peanut and rice cultivation by using the farm management index. Country data related human power (working day/hour, total working time per year), performance test of machine (field efficiency, Theorical and actual field capacity etc …), variables cost (labor cost, seed cost, pesticide cost, fuel cost, etc…) and to fix cost (machine cost, repair and maintenance cost, tax and others tax cost, etc…) are using for the calculation of the net profit for farmer in case of rice and peanut cultivation. For rice cultivation system, our result show that for the actual situation of rice cultivation based generaly on hand tools and draft animale, small farmer have a negative profit (-27 US $) when they cultivated an area almost egal to 0,5 ha. The result of the four cases of simulation (case 1 : 60% subsidence for draft animal; case 2 :60% subsidence for draft animal and intrant; case 3 : Introduction of small power tiller and case 4 : hiring tractor) show that the case 4 give the highest profit compared to the other cases. But when farmer cultivate more than 2 ha of land, the case 3 can provide more profit (286 US $) than case 4 (58US $). For this reason, a good chance for the farming system on rice cultivation in Senegal can be obtained from the case 3 (introduction of small power tiller) which can be proposed for the best farm management plan for rice cultivation for small farmer in Senegal. For peanut cultivation system, our result show that for the actual situation of peanut cultivation, small farmer still have a positive profit (261 US $) when they cultivated almost egal to 1 ha of land. From the simulation of four cases (case 1 : 60% subsidence for draft animal; case 2 : 60% subsidence for draft animal and intrant; case 3 : Introduction of small power tiller and case 4 : introduction of a small power tiller + 60% subsidence for draft animal and intrant), the case 3 give the highest profit (355 US $) compared to the other cases. It means, the introduction of small power tiller can reduce labor cost, can increase farmer‟s land size and can provide to farmer more income. For this reason, a good chance for the farming system on peanut cultivation in Senegal can be obtained from the case 3 (introduction of small power tiller) which can be proposed for the best farm management plan for peanut cultivation for small farmer in Senegal. According to the results of these simulations, it can be said that the using of small scale power tiller can be increase farmer„s income in case of rice and peanut cultivation in Senegal. Other similar studies applied to other crops such as maize, cowpea, etc. should be carried out in order to complete the database of the agricultural management index that makes it possible to make decisions of change in the cropping system in order to maximize the profit of the small scale farmer in Senegal.
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Mr Demba Diakhate
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