{"id":889,"date":"2017-06-06T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=889"},"modified":"2018-05-18T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:40:46","slug":"precision-farming-increases-yields-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/06\/06\/precision-farming-increases-yields-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Precision farming increases yields in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-891\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-891 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/aune-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/aune-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/aune-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/aune.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Aune et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Farmers in the semi-arid regions of West Africa face challenges related to poor crop establishment, variable rainfall, low soil fertility and a shortage of labour at times of peak demand. Scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-017-0424-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aune et al.<\/a> showed that selecting good quality seeds, seed priming, seed treatment with a fungicide\/insecticide, micro-dosing of fertilizers and water-harvesting structures increased yields in those areas. Mechanized sowing and weeding can ensure that the practices are applied at the right time and increase precision of application.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-017-0424-z'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the semi-arid regions of West Africa face challenges related to poor crop establishment, variable rainfall, low soil fertility and a shortage of labour at times of peak demand. Scientists Aune et al. showed that selecting good quality seeds, seed priming, seed treatment with a fungicide\/insecticide, micro-dosing of fertilizers and water-harvesting structures increased yields &#8230; <a title=\"Precision farming increases yields in West Africa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/06\/06\/precision-farming-increases-yields-in-west-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Precision farming increases yields in West Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-production-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}