L'introduction de la traction bovine chez les Wolof du Saloum (Sénégal)

The Introduction 'of the Oxen-Draught among the Wolof of Saloum (Sénégal). On the basis of a fieldstudy in 1971-73 is described how in Saloum (Senegal) population increase and expansion of groundnut cultivation have decreased the fallow period and soil fertility. Agricultural research and extension help the (Wolof) farmers to make the transition to a permanent agriculture by advising them to adopt oxen-draught instead of the use of manual labour, horse and donkey traction. The advantages are said to be that oxen are able to plough, are good furnishers of manure and are cheap in purchase and in upkeep. The study indicates that the farmers indeed adopted oxen-draught but did not make full advantage of it due to the lack of feed at the end of the dry season, the fragmentation of the family farmholding in individual holdings and the sale of oxen to the (urban) butcheries. At last is set out at the adoption of animal traction and farm implements since the end of the sixties did not affect the local labour economy, the decentralized way of farm management and the economic position of the women

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