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Cowpea is a key cash crop and also a staple food for millions of people in West and Central Africa. Cowpea trade is severely hampered by storage insects especially the cowpea weevil. The Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) project was started in Nigeria in 2008 on a pilot basis in the states of...


Abdoulaye, TahirouAyedun, B.Musa, S.A.Lowenberg-Deboer, J.Baributsa, D.Yakubu, S.A.Idris, A.A.[Adoption of PICS bags in Northern Nigeria: a case study of Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States]Adoption of PICS bags in Northern Nigeria: a case study of Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States
Baributsa, D.Baoua, I.Abdoulaye, TahirouDabiré, C.Alexander, C.Murdock, L.[PICS Bags: chemical-free crop storage]PICS Bags: chemical-free crop storage
Baributsa, D.Baoua, I.Lowenberg-Deboer, J.Abdoulaye, TahirouMurdock, L.L.[Purdue improved cowpea storage (PICS) technology]Purdue improved cowpea storage (PICS) technology

The Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) technology has been disseminated in 30,896 villages in 10different countries in West and Central Africa from 2007 to 2012. Extension and supply chain devel-opment efforts were required to make the PICS technology available to millions of farmers and other...


Baributsa, D.Abdoulaye, TahirouLowenberg-Deboer, J.Dabiré, C.Moussa, B.Coulibaly, O.Baoua, I.[Market building for postharvest technology through largescale extension efforts]Market building for postharvest technology through largescale extension efforts

This study is based on interviews with 3456 randomly selected cowpea farmers in 322 villages in ten countries in West and Central Africa in 2010 and 2012. It uses descriptive statistics to track the trends in adoption of cowpea storage technology compared to previous studies and Firth logistic re...


Moussa, B.Abdoulaye, TahirouCoulibaly, O.Baributsa, D.Lowenberg-Deboer, J.[Adoption of onfarm hermetic storage for cowpea in West and Central Africa in 2012]Adoption of onfarm hermetic storage for cowpea in West and Central Africa in 2012

In 2010, a survey was carried out in Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States to ascertain the level of reuse of the Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) bags (technique for cowpea storage) among 2008 users. The PICS project has ecommended to farmers to reuse their PICS bags as long as they are not punct...


Abdoulaye, TahirouAyedun, B.Musa, S.A.Lowenberg-Deboer, J.Baributsa, D.[Assessing the reuse of PICS bags in Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States of northern Nigeria]Assessing the reuse of PICS bags in Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States of northern Nigeria

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