page_title: Agriculture in Niger
section_title: Agriculture production
hierarchical_section_title: Agriculture in Niger / Agriculture production
caption_attribution_description: A cart carrying bundles of millet which was recently harvested. Metadata Image Title Millet Harvest File Name IMG_1214.jpg Date/Time 2007-09-10 16:10:21.0 Crop/Other Millet City/Province Koremairwa Country Niger Latitude 13.30 Longitude 3.91 Elevation 754 m
context_page_description: Agriculture is the primary economic activity of a majority of Niger's 17 million citizens.
  The agricultural economy is based largely upon internal markets, subsistence agriculture, and the export of raw commodities: food stuffs and cattle to neighbors. Niger, a landlocked Sub-Sahara African nation, and over the past two decades has consistently been ranked near or at the bottom of worldwide indexes of the Human development index, GDP, and per capita income. Economic activity centres on subsistence agriculture, animal husbandry, re-export trade, and export of uranium. The 50% devaluation of the West African CFA franc in January, 1994 boosted exports of livestock, cowpeas, onions, and the products of Niger's small cotton industry. Exports of cattle to neighboring Nigeria, as well as Groundnuts and their oil remain the primary non-mineral exports.
context_section_description: Niger's agricultural and livestock sectors are the mainstay of all but 18% of the population. Fourteen percent of Niger's GDP is generated by livestock production (camels, goats, sheep and cattle), said to support 29% of the population. Thus 53% of the population is actively involved in crop production. The 15% of Niger's land that is arable is found mainly along its southern border with Nigeria.
  Pearl millet, sorghum, and cassava are Niger's principal rain-fed subsistence crops. Irrigated rice for internal consumption, while expensive, has, since the devaluation of the CFA franc, sold for below the price of imported rice, encouraging additional production. Cowpeas and onions are grown for commercial export, as are small quantities of garlic, peppers, potatoes, and wheat.
caption: A farmer collecting his millet harvest near Koremairwa in the Dosso department.
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