Departments/municipalities | Constraints (ranked from main important to less important) | Coping strategies developed by |
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Collines (Savalou, Glazoué and Ouèssè) | Difficulty to harvest | Hired labor and mutual aid |
Production negatively affected by high rainfall | Left with no option | |
Lack of financial resource | Left with no option | |
Zou (Zagnanado and Djidja) | Difficulty to harvest | Hired Labor |
Difficulty for threshing | Hired Labor | |
Lack of financial resource to implement agricultural operations | “Atcholou” mutual aid to carry out cultivation operations | |
Insects attack | Left with no option | |
Plateau (Pobè an Ketou) | Low yield | Left with no option |
Lack of financial resource to carry out at appropriate time production activities | Left with no option | |
Non-availability of quality seed | Reuse of saved seed | |
Difficulty to have access to market | Left with no option | |
Couffo | Lack of quality seed (low rate of germination) | Reuse of saved seed |
Low yield | Purchase cultivars of CARDER variety (a variety introduced by extension service) | |
Insect attack on flowers and seeds | Use of insecticides |