Gardening systems and the use of pesticides and fertilisers: an ever-changing dynamic: the view of gardeners in the lowland of Nedialpoun, Burkina Faso

This study analyses the dynamics of market garden cropping systems and the impact of pesticide and fertiliser use. The methodology combines secondary and primary data. Descriptive statistics, the relative importance index, the impact frequency index and ordered logistic regression were used to process the data. The study showed that market gardeners have several market gardens cropping systems, including eight cropping systems before the development of the lowland and thirteen cropping systems today. The dynamics of the cropping systems are accompanied by a high frequency of pesticide and fertiliser use. The study also shows that the dynamics of pesticide and fertiliser use are influenced by the type of market targeted by the growers, the type of vegetables grown, the level of the water table, climatic variables, the level of education, the size of the plots and the level of equipment used by the growers.