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Accordingly, only 5 of the 100 respondents in the Savanes region did not use the ridger.

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- Animal traction is primarily employed for soil preparation; farmers in the Savanes region purchase and use the ridger for their traditional cropping on the ridges.

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FAURE, G.; DJANGI, K. (1988b): L'Expansion de la Culture Attele dans la Rgion des Savanes au Togo.

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The accent lies in the north of Togo, especially the Savanes region where animal traction finds a distribution rate of over 10 % among the farmers.

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In the Kara and Centrale regions, which border on the Savanes region, an adaptation of only 1 % reflects low acceptance by the farmers.

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SOTOCO (1987): La Culture Attele dans les Savanes, Situation,

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A balanced working calender for the Centrale region, additionally favoured by the tropical rainy climate, renders the use of implements superfluous, while the working calender in the drier Savanes region (figure E 5) shows up defined work peaks (see section F 2, case study on Togo).

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Cropping on ridges is widespread in transitional regions of the semihumid/semiarid climate, e.g. in Casamance in south Senegal (1000 -1300 mm rainfall) and in the Savanes region of Togo (1000 - 1100 mm rainfall).

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In the Savanes region in North Togo, for example, the time for a more intensive seedbed preparation is too short at the beginning of the rainy season.

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Weed control is chiefly conducted manually in the Savanes region.

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