Laboratoire Pierre Pagney : Climat, Eau, Ecosystèmes et Développement (LACEEDE), Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines (FLASH), Université d'Abomey-Calavi (UAC), BP 922 Cotonou, Benin
Mono department which is located in south-est in Benin Republic is facing to many problems about water management. This is works aims to study the impacts of water consumption on people
In Benin, cultures are submitted to animals attacks and harmful plants. Such situations cause defoliation and destruction of the plants, thus causing huge losses to farmers. To reach the end of such situations, herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers are now being used in higher quantities than past. Even if the use of pesticides to fight weeds and parasites has increased the food crops, it also bads to their contamination. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the level of cassava tubers contamination by the use of pesticides in the township of Djidja (Benin). Nine (09) cassava samples were collected in nine (09) cotton fields in three (03) villages (Zakan Kossossa, Fonkpodji, Aklinm