Abstract:
This study was carried out in the Northern region of Burkina Faso from 2019 to 2020 to evaluate
the agro - economic performance of Nofosuo compost on cabbage yield. The study used a
completely randomized Fisher block design to test seven treatments in three replications. The
applied treatments were: i) T0 (control), ii) T1 (single Nofosuo compost), iii) T2 (Nofosuo
compost + Organic Fertilizer (OF)), iv) T3 (Nofosuo compost + Mineral Fertilizer (MF)), v) T4
(Nofosuo compost + OF + MF), vi) T5 (single OF), vii) T6 (single MF). By this experiment,
under Nofosuo compost (T1, T2, T3 and T4), the growth and yield parameters of cabbage were
much improved. The study underscored the outperformance of Nofosuo compost combined with
organo-mineral fertilizer regardless of the other treatments applied (T0, T5 and T6). T4 was
87.8%, 75% and 71.6% more improved than T0, T5 and T6 respectively. In addition, it was
found that the single Nofosuo compost T1 was the most economically profitable as its value-tocost ratio (14.23) and return on investment (1707.14) were the highest compared to the others.
This study would therefore help farmers to decide how to manage this organic fertilizer in their
vegetable crop production.
