Togo Crop Calendar
What to plant and harvest across 4 agro-ecological zones in Togo — 16 crops with sowing windows, growing periods and local notes.
Sow this July
11 cropsIndian spinach
Pepper, chili
Eggplant
Rice
Tomato
Bean, broad green
Cabbage, common
Corn, sweet
Sorghum
Cucumber
Soybean
All crops in Togo
Bean, broad green
Cabbage, common
Corn, sweet
Cucumber
Eggplant
Indian spinach
Pepper, chili
Rice
Sorghum
Soybean
Tomato
Carrot
Chilli, dry
Onion
Peanut
Watermelon
Agro-ecological zones
hill mountain dry savannah
Relief: pénéplaine corrugated and curiracés mounds, Eaves, forehead and back of Cuesta and depression, pénéplaine alluvial and hills. Soil tropical ferruginous soils in concretion soil leached ferruginous induirés + unsophisticated soil erosion. Pluviométie: 1000 - 1200 mm, mono modal regime single rainy season. Climate: Sudano-Guinean to a single rainy season
Practices: Food crops: corn, sorghum, rice, millet, groundnut, cowpea, yam, sweet potato, taro; vegetables: tomato, onion, carrot, okra, Livestock: poultry, sheep, goats, cattle
other Forest area
Relief: Relief steep, rugged plateaus. Soil erosion of soils Licid, ferralitique soils, soil erosion unsophisticated. Rainfall: 1300 - 1700 mm with two rainy seasons. Climate: sub-equatorial climate of medium altitude.
Practices: Food crops: corn, sorghum, rice, cowpea, groundnut, yam, cassava, sweet potato. Vegetable crops: tomato, onion, carrot, lettuce, cabbage, okra. Livestock: poultry, sheep, goats
plains littoral
Terrain: Landscape tabular slightly wavy, depression, alluvial valleys and lagoons and mangroviens environments. Soils: red soils ferralitic, Vertisols and soils waterlogged, saline soils slightly evolved intake and / or hydromorphic. Rainfall: 900 to 1200 mm with two rainy seasons. Climate: Guinean climate with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons
Practices: Food crops: corn, rice, cowpea, groundnut, cassava, yam. Vegetable crops: tomato, onion, carrots, okra, lettuce, cabbage apple. Livestock: poultry, goats, sheep, pigs
plains wet savannah
Relief: Peneplain wavy. Soils: ferruginous leached soils concretions hydromorphe + vertisols located, ferruginous tropical soils leached and impoverished and concretion. Rainfall: 1000-1500 mm. transitional regime at the northern limit but frankly bimodal south. Climate: semi-tropical humid climate with two main seasons: a rainy season and dry season (central region) and transition equatorial climate with two rainy seasons and two dry season (eastern plateau region)
Practices: Food crops: corn, sorghum, rice, cowpea, groundnut, yam, sweet potato. Vegetable crops: tomato, onion, carrots, okra. Livestock: poultry, sheep, goats, pigs