Rice Production in Niger
General information
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Production seasons
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Write-up taken from the IRRI’s Rice Almanac (2013):
Niger is one of the larger Central African countries, with an area of 1.27 million km2. Landlocked, it consists mainly of a plateau. The Sahara Desert occupies the northern parts and there is savanna in the south where crops such as rice are grown. Nearly all (90%) of the workforce in the population of 16.1 million (2011) is rural, engaged in subsistence agriculture, which makes up 39.7% of GDP. Arable land made up 11.8% of total land area in 2009.
Source: FAOSTAT database online and AQUASTAT database online, as of November 2012.