Agricultural Activities

Lakes of hydro-agricultural dams are technical innovations developed by the Ivorian State in the countryside of the north of the country in the 1970s. The presence of these water reservoirs has helped to boost agricultural production and to begin an extension of aquaculture activities through the construction of various fish farms. Today, however, the dam of Tiné in the sub-prefecture of Bahouakaha, like many of these works, is in a poor state of operation due to a lack of regular maintenance of its facilities. This reality negatively impacts the agricultural activities practiced in this lowlands of an area of more than 200 hectares. The objective of this study is to examine the consequences of the failure of this lake development on the cultural and halio-aquaculture activities that depend on it. The methodological approach is based on an exploitation of the documentation relating to tributary activities of fluvio-lacustrine environments. Semi-structured interviews and direct observation of the facts were also used during the field surveys. It appears that the dysfunction of the lake supply system has led to the closure of a state-built fish farm in the lowlands. Currently, a water leak due to the damage of the stop valve, at the monk tower of the dam, affects rice and vegetable productions. This situation undermines the livelihoods of user communities and threatens the food security of local populations.
Keywords: Ivory Coast, lacustrine system, agricultural activities, fish farming, failure.

Though youth have desirable qualities that can promote agriculture, most of them have strong apathy toward it. This has resulted in mass unemployment and lack of sustainable livelihood among youth. With fewer youth into agriculture, the long term future of agriculture sector is in question. The study aimed at finding out on the role played by agriculture to rural youth socio-economic needs, types of agricultural activities which are engaged by rural youth and the factors which influence rural youth participation in agriculture. Data for this study were collected from Kahe East Ward in Moshi district through questionnaires and interviews. Study found that majority of the respondents were attracted to invest more in their own farms rather than being employed as labour or involved in family farms. The findings of the study also revealed that rural youth in Kahe are provided with their socioeconomic needs through their participation in agriculture. These include food, education and heal...

Though youth have desirable qualities that can promote agriculture, most of them have strong apathy toward it. This has resulted in mass unemployment and lack of sustainable livelihood among youth. With fewer youth into agriculture, the long term future of agriculture sector is in question. The study aimed at finding out on the role played by agriculture to rural youth socioeconomic needs, types of agricultural activities which are engaged by rural youth and the factors which influence rural youth participation in agriculture. Data for this study were collected from Kahe East Ward in Moshi district through questionnaires and interviews. Study found that majority of the respondents were attracted to invest more in their own farms rather than being employed as labour or involved in family farms. The findings of the study also revealed that rural youth in Kahe are provided with their socioeconomic needs through their participation in agriculture. These include food, education and healt...

Though youth have desirable qualities that can promote agriculture, most of them have strong apathy toward it. This has resulted in mass unemployment and lack of sustainable livelihood among youth. With fewer youth into agriculture, the long term future of agriculture sector is in question. The study aimed at finding out on the role played by agriculture to rural youth socioeconomic needs, types of agricultural activities which are engaged by rural youth and the factors which influence rural youth participation in agriculture. Data for this study were collected from Kahe East Ward in Moshi district through questionnaires and interviews. Study found that majority of the respondents were attracted to invest more in their own farms rather than being employed as labour or involved in family farms. The findings of the study also revealed that rural youth in Kahe are provided with their socioeconomic needs through their participation in agriculture. These include food, education and healt...

Although inland surface water bodies have been studied intensively, few studies have looked at the interactive effects of seawater intrusion and waterway types on the water quality. The current study aimed to (1) assess the inland water quality as affected by waterway types and seawater intrusion-affected zones, (2) examine the longitudinal dynamics of the water quality, and (3) quantify the contributive percentage of pollution sources in the coastal Tien Giang Province, Vietnam. A total of 680 surface-water samples were taken from 34 sites distributed over the Tien River and its tributary canals from 2015 to 2019. The water samples were analyzed for 16 physical, chemical, and biological parameters, which were used for water quality index (WQI) estimation and subjected to two-way ANOVA and principal component analysis/factor analysis (PCA/FA). The WQI in both waterway types tended to get better from the downstream to the upstream zone with an improving rate of WQI faster in the River (from 79 to 88) than in the canals (from 82 to 85). The PCA/FA showed that water from the two waterway types could be polluted by six main pollution sources, one of which was derived from the seawater intrusion, one from aquaculture, and the others from agricultural, residential, and industrial activities. In brief, the inland surface water quality of a coastal area was interactively influenced by spatial distance and waterway types, transferring various pollutants in and out of the inland area.

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