On-Farm Testing in Northern Ghana Using the Tricot Approach: Successes, Challenges, and Way Forward

Dr. Theophilus Kwabla Tengey is a Senior Research Scientist and lead of the Cowpea Improvement Program at CSIR–Savanna Agricultural Research Institute in Ghana. In this presentation, he shares experiences from using the Tricot approach to conduct large-scale, farmer-managed trials in northern Ghana. With support from the ClimMob platform, the team streamlined trial design, data collection, and analysis. The presentation highlights how 760 farmers contributed to identifying top-performing varieties of cowpea, groundnut, sorghum, and millet, while also reflecting on key successes, challenges, and future directions for participatory variety testing in the region.