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Research on African vegetables at the Horticultural Development Centre (CDH), Senegal
Meissa Diouf
Centre pour le Développement de l’Horticulture, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (CDH/ISRA), Dakar, Senegal

Abstract

Research has been carried out by the Horticultural Development Centre (CDH) on the following traditional African vegetables: cassava, sweet potato, okra, African eggplant and bissap (Hibiscus sabdariffa). Technical pamphlets have been produced describing the genotypes that are adapted to our ecological, climatic and cropping conditions. These plant genetic resources are conserved in field genebanks (cassava and sweet potato) or as seed samples stored in freezers (African eggplant, okra and bissap). The main uses of these vegetables are: leaf vegetable and flour (cassava); chips, leaf vegetable and jam (sweet potato); fruit vegetable (okra, African eggplant, bissap – green calyx); juice (bissap – red calyx). The objectives of current research are: widening the range of available adapted varieties, improving the productivity of the varieties that have already been developed, and identifying varieties resistant to nematodes, the main pests in Senegal.

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