Abstract
In Burkina Faso, breeding occupies an important place in the country’s economy, but is based essentially on the exploitation of the natural resources (pasture) which remains limited in extent due to the extension of land cultivated by agricultural practices extensive. Food is one of the most important limiting factors in animal production, hence the need to develop mechanisms to improve the production of food resources. This study is a contribution to fodder production improvement. In this study, cowpea was grown in a greenhouse for 60 days and inoculated with two inocula of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The growth parameters were measured at 30 and 60 days after sowing. Shoot, root and total biomass were evaluated 60 days after sowing. The results show Yac 2 mix inoculum improves height growth (95.5%), height relative growth rate (525%), collar diameter (138%), collar diameter relative growth rate (328.57%), shoot biomass (396.3%), root biomass by (205.66%), total biomass by (320%), total nitrogen of aerial parts (92.39%) and total phosphorus of aerial parts (143.48%) compared to control. Yac 2 mix appears the most effective of all inoculum used in this study.
Highlights
In Burkina Faso, breeding is the third export product after gold and cotton
The results show Yac 2 mix inoculum improves height growth (95.5%), height relative growth rate (525%), collar diameter (138%), collar diameter relative growth rate (328.57%), shoot biomass (396.3%), root biomass by (205.66%), total biomass by (320%), total nitrogen of aerial parts (92.39%) and total phosphorus of aerial parts (143.48%) compared to control
Fungal material was composed of four local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) isolated from the rhizosphere of cowpeas grown in Burkina Faso [8]: Yac 2 mix (Scutellospora sp., Gigaspora sp., Glomus sp.), Entrophospora sp., Gigaspora sp. and Glomus sp
Summary
The major part of the food resources comes from natural pastures which, even if they are capable of improvement, remain limited in extent due to the extension of the cultivated lands by extensive agricultural practices In this country, the rainy season corresponding to the abundance of natural pastures remains very short. In Burkina Faso, demographic pressure and the growing need to satisfy agricultural products are causing more and more intensive exploitation of natural resources (land, pastures) This overexploitation exceeds the capacity of the land which is characterized by soils lacking in nutrients, nitrogen and assimilable phosphorus [3] with a low organic matter content, which shows the need to use fertilizers to ensure satisfactory and stable agricultural production. Maintaining the productivity of crops by replacing the use of chemical fertilizers by mobilizing biological processes is at the heart of the challenges of current research
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