Diversity and characteristics of green natural fodders sold in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Diversity and characteristics of green natural fodders sold in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Kaboré Adama¹*, Traoré Amadou¹, Gnanda B. Isidore¹, Ouédraogo Pascal²,  Tamboura H Hamidou¹, Belem A. M. Gaston³

¹Département Productions Animales (DPA) / Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), 04 BP 8645 Ouagadougou  / Burkina Faso.

²Ministère des Ressources Animales,  03 BP 7026 Ouagadougou 03 Burkina Faso.

³Institut du Développement Rural (IDR)/Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso, 01 BP 3770 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso.

*Corresponding Author E-mail: [email protected]:  Phone : 00226 70 28 10 98: Fax : 00226 50

Received 02 July, 2012; Accepted 26 July, 2012

In Burkina Faso, small ruminants of urban cities are generally fed during all the seasons with marketed green natural fodders. This study was carried out to understand the functioning of these fodders marketing in the city of Ouagadougou and to inventory fodder species used in order to establish their chemical composition and their intensity of infestation in gastrointestinal nematodes. Thus, Investigations were conducted in six sites in rainy season, in cold dry season and in hot dry season (march-may). Analysis of collected data revealed 15 species of green natural fodders marketed and composed of 8 gramineous and 7 leguminous. These species belong to 9 botanical families among which the Poaceae is the most dominant with 8 species and within which Pennisetum pedicelatum was the most available (25.2 %). Besides, parasitological analysis made did not find gastrointestinal nematode larvae’s (L₃) on the inventoried fodders. The chemical analysis indicate important average contents of organic matter (OM) and crude protein (CP) in gramineous (82.2 – 91.0 % and 6.5 – 17.4 %) and leguminous (83.8 – 90.6 % and 8.7 – 21.3 %). Therefore, all inventoried green fodders could improve the productions of small ruminants raised in all season through a good supplementation strategy.

Keywords: Survey, Green natural fodders, Chemical composition, Nematode larvae, Small ruminants, Ouagadougou.