Burkina Faso
About Burkina Faso
The OCP AFRICA office in Burkina Faso was created in February 2018. Our overall goal is to provide farmers with soil and crop friendly fertilizers, as well as agricultural services through training and awareness of good agricultural practices and fertilizer recommendation.
LOCAL PRESENCE
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OCP Africa Location : Ouagadougou
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Type of Presence: Representative office
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Key Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Institutions, Producers Organization, IPNI.
MARKET SNAPSHOT
Burkina Faso is an agricultural country with 86% of the active population and contributes about 34% of GDP. The arable land is estimated at 9 000 000 ha with an irrigable land potential of 233 500 ha. Cotton is the main commercial and export culture.
Main Crops
Maize, rice, sorghum, millet, cotton, peanut, sesame, cowpea, soybean, voandzou, tomato, cabbage, onion, potato, sweet potato, yam
Parcelle 24 & 25, Lot 05, Section PK, ZAD, 01 BP 6617, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso
Local initiatives
OCP AFRICA provides a range of services to support local farmers.
OCP School Lab
Through this innovative agricultural development tools, the mobile OCP school Lab reach farmers in the remote areas of the country to: i) raise awareness of the importance of the diagnosis of soil fertility management using software from IPNI and ii) offer training on good agricultural practices and fertilizer recommendations for small-holder farmers. To date, after two campaigns, more than 12.500 farmers were impacted.
Agribooster
OCP Africa is currently formalizing some Agribooster programs.
Agronomy initiative
On-farm and on-station trials of OCP fertilizers on main crops in Burkina Faso
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À PROPOS DU BURKINA FASO
18
millions
Population
12.3
milliards USD
PIB
9
millions
d'hectares de terres arables estimées
121000
km²
Terres agricoles
21.8
kg
Consommation d'engrais par hectare de terres arables