Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues
This study characterizes market gardening in Houet province in order to determine the various categories of market gardening farms based on specific socioeconomic variables, as well as to analyze the main factors influencing their economic performance. Using principal component analysis (PCA) and hi...
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| description | This study characterizes market gardening in Houet province in order to determine the various categories of market gardening farms based on specific socioeconomic variables, as well as to analyze the main factors influencing their economic performance. Using principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical ascending classification, the main factors influencing the economic situation of the market garden farms in Houet were analyzed through the interrelationships between the variables considered. Findings revealed four clusters of vegetable farms with different socioeconomic features depending on the farming environment (urban, peri-urban and rural). In the same vein, the results showed that market gardeners in urban areas have the best economic performance. With the regard to the durability of the production, results showed that the majority of market gardeners (95%) have a conventional production method and often use in an uncontrolled way chemical pesticides, as well as mineral fertilizers that some combine with organic amendments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-262366dcacee424b83a59c81e8768a502023-01-05T08:40:19ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402022-12-01812e12408Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issuesFélix Ouédraogo0Parfait K. Tapsoba1Institut des Sciences des Sociétés (INSS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CNRST), 03 BP 7047 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina FasoSchool of Economics, Socio-Anthropology and Communication for Rural Development (EESAC), Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (FSA), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), 03 BP 2819 Cotonou, Benin; Corresponding author.This study characterizes market gardening in Houet province in order to determine the various categories of market gardening farms based on specific socioeconomic variables, as well as to analyze the main factors influencing their economic performance. Using principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical ascending classification, the main factors influencing the economic situation of the market garden farms in Houet were analyzed through the interrelationships between the variables considered. Findings revealed four clusters of vegetable farms with different socioeconomic features depending on the farming environment (urban, peri-urban and rural). In the same vein, the results showed that market gardeners in urban areas have the best economic performance. With the regard to the durability of the production, results showed that the majority of market gardeners (95%) have a conventional production method and often use in an uncontrolled way chemical pesticides, as well as mineral fertilizers that some combine with organic amendments.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022036969AgroecologySocioeconomic typologyVegetable farmsVegetable incomeSustainability |
| spellingShingle | Félix Ouédraogo Parfait K. Tapsoba Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues Heliyon Agroecology Socioeconomic typology Vegetable farms Vegetable income Sustainability |
| title | Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues |
| title_full | Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues |
| title_fullStr | Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues |
| title_short | Diversity of market gardening farms in western Burkina Faso. Nexus between production environment, farm size, financial performance and environmental issues |
| title_sort | diversity of market gardening farms in western burkina faso nexus between production environment farm size financial performance and environmental issues |
| topic | Agroecology Socioeconomic typology Vegetable farms Vegetable income Sustainability |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022036969 |
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