To carry out a test protocol on seeds to ensure that they have retained their germinative germinative properties, you can work on twenty seeds, sown in pots. The seed packets and plates are identified. All the seeds with a good germination rate can then be sown immediately on a … Read More
Sweet potatoes at the Garden of Skills, Malanti, Eswatini The sweet potato is very popular in Eswatini, and is also suitable for sloping ground as it produces abundant creeping foliage. After each harvest, the women take cuttings from the harvested … Read More
During the training course organised by The Ivory Foundation and Agrosemens in Senegal, Louis Marie Broucqsault and Cyriaque Crosnier Mangeat presented BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) as a solution for treating the pests that attack Moringa. Louis Marie noted that Moringa leaves … Read More
Cyriaque Crosnier Mangeat, from Agrosemens, provides advice in Dawady, where The Ivory Foundation has been developing a large collective vegetable garden since 2018, bringing together 150 village women on 450 cultivated plots. Observation of a tomato plant affected by acariosis … Read More
Cyriaque Crosnier Mangeat advises Joseph Gomis on the Petit Princes garden in Rufisque, Senegal.Joseph has planted aubergines in this above-ground garden on the school roof. Cyriaque has detected the presence of acariosis in the aubergines.He advises misting the leaves from … Read More
Louis-Marie Broucqsault, production manager at Agrosemens, is providing advice in Rufisque on the Handiscole garden developed by Designing Hope. He is advising Joseph Gomis, the garden’s manager, on how to prevent pepper blight. Louis-Marie Broucqsault, production manager at Agrosemens, is … Read More
Cyriaque Crosnier Mangeat, manager of organic seed producer Agrosemens, advises on the Dawady seed project in Senegal. Harvesting methods: You need to select healthy fruit that has reached the ripening stage of the seed carrier (a stage further advanced than … Read More
Emile shows here the stages of preparation of the cultivation mounds. First step, the campagnole, this tool invented by Vincent Legris is manufactured by La Fabriculture. It is an improved broadfork, with two wheels to facilitate its movement. It has … Read More
Little demonstration of sowing at the Grand Potager of Fontenille, in the Luberon. On prepared ridges of 80cm wide, Mael , the head of cultivation in the vegetable garden, uses the single-row precision seed drill for a new row of … Read More
Since 2017, The Ivory Foundation has been supporting deaf and hard of hearing youth in Lesotho. 5 students trained in agriculture have been placed on a new semi autonomous farm. Young people put their knowledge of agroecology into practice. This … Read More
