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The Delfino creates large half-moon catchments ready for planting seeds and seedlings, boosting rainwater harvesting tenfold and making soil more permeable for planting than the traditional - and backbreaking – method of digging by hand. This creates favourable micro-climate conditions allowing seeds and seedlings to flourish. The half-moon is a traditional Sahel planting method which creates contours to stop rainwater runoff, improving water infiltration and keeping the soil moist for longer. “It is when we use it appropriately and in consultation and cooperation that we see such progress.” A very good and suitable plough, but a plough all the same,” says Moctar Sacande, Coordinator of FAO’s Action Against Desertification programme. “In the end the Delfino is just a plough. This technology, whilst impressive, is proving to be successful because it is being used in tandem with traditional farming techniques. Workers preparing tractors to start ploughing in Burkina Faso. In Nigeria and Senegal, it is working to scale up the restoration of degraded land. In Burkina Faso and Niger, the target number of hectares for immediate restoration has already been met and extended thanks to the Delfino plough. These species are very resilient and work well in degraded land, providing vegetation cover and improving the productivity of previously barren lands. Once an area is ploughed, the seeds of woody and herbaceous native species are then sown directly, and inoculated seedlings planted.

The Delfino plough is extremely efficient: one hundred farmers digging irrigation ditches by hand can cover a hectare a day, but when the Delfino is hooked to a tractor, it can cover 15 to 20 hectares in a day. However, the introduction of a state-of-the art heavy digger, the Delfino plough, is proving to be, literally, a breakthrough.Īs part of its Action Against Desertification (AAD) programme, the FAO has brought the Delfino to four countries in the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal – to cut through impacted, bone-dry soil to a depth of more than half a metre. Those trying to grow crops in the Sahel region are often faced with poor soil, erratic rainfail and long periods of drought.

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