Filière karité : Le digital peut améliorer les rendements, selon une étude du Fonds d’équipement des Nations unies

Dear Chris, yirmegna and clerze,
I knew my analysis can only be appreciated by smart and forward thinkers like all of you. Indeed I am really interested in implementing some these types of projects in my country, The Burkina Faso. We do have so much resources such as native plants and we are totally mindless of improving something that is already there as native. The Karite tree is one of most versatile agro-forestry tree that our partners will discourage us from exploring the opportunity. It is very resistant tree ever in the nature and the environment of the sahel. We are focusing on growing teck trees for only the wood and nothing else. But karite when well process, can be transformed to, or become byproducts in chocolate production. One of the research I have examined few years ago on Karite production was done by European researchers. They concluded that the yield of shea nut per tree was less that one kilogram. From that point, I started to wonder if these researchers knew how much a karite plant can produce or they are trying to discourage the cultivation of karite plant. Another suggestion, in the Dori and the yatenga region, why can we promote the cultivation of date palm or olive trees there ? During Ramadan, our brothers and sisters Muslims buy date palm to break the fast. The industry of date palm and olive oil is one of the biggest industries ever. We have the climate for the production of date palm and olive tree. We just need people with conviction to help our farmers out of poverty. In the Orodaga region, we can add values and promote our citrus industry. I am just worried about the citrus farm in BURKINA. Because there is a virus that is killing the citrus trees slowly. I am not sure if the entomologist from Burkina Faso are well aware of that virus. The virus cause a disease called
Huanglongbing. It is a bad disease for citrus plants. Be very careful with that. It can decimate the entire citrus industry in burkina. Anyways, I am always ready to serve my country if my country needs me. We can all stay in contact and I can be reach at cppabmagronomy@gmail.com
Leiw