Rice is the third most important crop in Niger and showsthe most rapidly increasing consumption. Rice importsgrew from 40,000 t in 1995 to 210,000 t in 2005 at a costof US$ 71.4 million in a country where nearly 60% of thepopulation lives below the poverty line [1,2]. Rice is produced mainly in the region of Tillabéry (75% national production) where about 1/7 of Niger’ s population live [3,4].With 100,000 ha of arable and irrigable lands, this regionof Tillabéry has nearly 50% of the country’ s irrigable land.There are 29 irrigated rice schemes (with double cropping each year) that cover 7,432 ha (85.3% of the nationalirrigated schemes) in Tillabéry. The average rice grain yield in this agrosystem is 3.5 to 4.5 t ha−1[5,6]. This intensive system, under the control of local farmer unions andsupervised by the Office National des Aménagements Hydro-Agricoles (ONAHA), currently produces 30,000 to
35,000 t year−1. Private irrigated systems with individual
water pumps are also found in this area. The irrigated ecosystems are planted only with improved Asia-type (Oryzasativa) cultivars. The traditional rice growing in the Tillabéry region accounts for about 62.13% of lowland rice production.
L’objectif global de cette formation est de renforcer les compétences des techniciens/ciennes à former les producteurs/trices de coton sur la multiplication et la diffusion des semences améliorées certifiées du coton et des cultures de rotation prenant en compte le genre afin d’accroître la productivité agricole et le revenu des producteurs/trices.
Ces brèves de cultures répertorient des données sur la production, la distribution et l’utilisation des semences des cultures suivantes : maïs, riz, sorgho, millet, arachide, niébé et légumes dans les deux pays que sont le Niger et le Mali. Le présent document est la brève de culture du riz pour le Niger.