Development of glandless cottonseed and nutritional experience in the Ivory Coast
The Institut de Reserches du Coton et des Textiles Exotiques (IRCT) has developed research programs on glandless cotton in several African countries and mainly in the Ivory Coast where 23,700 hectares (59,000 acres) were cultivated in 1984. This experience was successful from the agronomic aspect. Nevertheless, the technological characteristics of the glandless varieties being lower than those of glanded cottons (especially ginning percentage), glandless cotton were not cultivated during the following years. Nevertheless, the Ivory Coast experience of 1984 demonstrates that glandless cottonseed flours can be produced economically as a source of oil, cakes and flours of high nutritional value for human food and animal feedings. From 1984 to the end of 1987, a research program financed by the European Economic Communities was conducted on glandless cottonseeds with the Institut des Savanes, (IDS) in Bouake, the Institut de Sante Publique, (INSP) in Abidjan and different French laboratories. New glandless varieties which have agronomic and technological characteristics at least comparable to those of the best cultivated glanded varieties have been created in the Ivory Coast. Nutritional rehabilitation of young children stricken by kwashiorkor marasmus was successfully undertaken on glandless cotton flour from IRCT. This paper describes the main results of all these experiences and develops some technological and economic data related to the glandless cottonseed production and processing. Additionally, the future prospects for glandless cotton in the main French-speaking African countries are examined.
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American Oil Chemists' Society
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| Summary: | The Institut de Reserches du Coton et des Textiles Exotiques (IRCT) has developed research programs on glandless cotton in several African countries and mainly in the Ivory Coast where 23,700 hectares (59,000 acres) were cultivated in 1984. This experience was successful from the agronomic aspect. Nevertheless, the technological characteristics of the glandless varieties being lower than those of glanded cottons (especially ginning percentage), glandless cotton were not cultivated during the following years. Nevertheless, the Ivory Coast experience of 1984 demonstrates that glandless cottonseed flours can be produced economically as a source of oil, cakes and flours of high nutritional value for human food and animal feedings. From 1984 to the end of 1987, a research program financed by the European Economic Communities was conducted on glandless cottonseeds with the Institut des Savanes, (IDS) in Bouake, the Institut de Sante Publique, (INSP) in Abidjan and different French laboratories. New glandless varieties which have agronomic and technological characteristics at least comparable to those of the best cultivated glanded varieties have been created in the Ivory Coast. Nutritional rehabilitation of young children stricken by kwashiorkor marasmus was successfully undertaken on glandless cotton flour from IRCT. This paper describes the main results of all these experiences and develops some technological and economic data related to the glandless cottonseed production and processing. Additionally, the future prospects for glandless cotton in the main French-speaking African countries are examined. |
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