EVALUATION DES CARACTERISTIQUES AGRONOMIQUES DE CINQ ACCESSIONS DE SESAME (SESAMUMINDICUM L.) A KORHOGO, AU NORD DE LA COTE DIVOIRE

Climate change, poverty and food insecurity are generally leading ivorian producers to turn increasingly to crops that require less water and inputs to diversify their income. Among these crops we can cite sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) which, despite its nutritional and socio- economic importance, has its culture which faces a low performance of the available plant material and phytosanitary constraints which limit its productivity. Hence the interest of this work, which consisted in characterizing five sesame accessions on agronomic aspects and on their behavior in the face of the phytosanitaryconstraintsencountered in the study area. It was carried out on the experimental plot of Peleforo GON COULIBALY University in Korhogo. A randomized full block device with 4 repetitions was used. The factor studied was accession to 5 levels. The results of this work showed significant differences between the accessions for the various agronomic parameters observed and measured. The A3 accession was the most branched and the A1 accession the highest. In addition, accessions A3 and A5 were the most efficient in terms of grain yield (3987.4 kg / ha) while accessions A4 and A1 were the most sensitive to variousfungalattacks.