ONACC NOCC Minister for the Environment and the Environment Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
# Agricultural Calendar
for the
# 2023 Cropping Season
in the
Soudano Sahelian Agro-Ecological Zone
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# CONTENTS
CONTENTS ... 3 GLOSSARY ... 4 SUMMARY ... 5 INTRODUCTION ... 7 I.1 Context and justification ... 7 I.2 Methodology ... 8 SUMMARY OF CLIMATE FORECASTS FOR THE PERIOD MAY TO JULY 2023 ... 9 MAIN AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THE ZONE OF INTEREST ... 17 TIMELINE OF ACTIVITIES IN THE SUDANO-SAHELIAN ZONE ... 18 APPENDIX: PRODUCTION TEAM ... 33
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# GLOSSARY
Agricultural Calendar: A decision-making and advisory tool for planning, managing and monitoring agricultural activities. It presents the types of agricultural speculations (maize, cocoa, beans, etc.), the agricultural operations (preparation of fields, sowing, maintenance, etc.) in a given agro-ecological zone (Sudano-Sahelian, High Guinean Savannah, Forest with bimodal rainfall, High Plateaux and Forest with monomodal rainfall).
Climate: All the meteorological elements and phenomena (temperature, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, wind, etc.), as well as their dynamics in time and space (expressed by the seasons) that characterize a given place or a specific geographical area over a long period (at least 30 years according to the WMO).
La Niña is a cold marine current, an unusual climatic phenomenon that generally occurs every 2 to 7 years in the equatorial Pacific and particularly along the coasts of Latin America. It is characterized by the upwelling of oceanic waters from the depth to the surface. These waters are usually highly nutrient-rich. It affects the global circulation of the atmosphere, and its consequences are global: modification of wind patterns, rainfall, and the appearance of extreme weather situations such as floods, extreme droughts, etc.).
El Niño is a warm marine current (the opposite of La Niña), characterized by an increase in the temperature of the ocean surface. It is a large-scale oceanic phenomenon that takes place in the equatorial Pacific, with a periodicity of 2 to 5 years. It affects the large-scale global circulation of the atmosphere and the wind regime. El Niño is the warm phase of the coupled ocean/atmosphere phenomenon known as ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation).
Climate variability: Variations in meteorological parameters (temperature, precipitation, etc.) around a mean on seasonal and inter-annual time scales in a given region.