Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali

Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali

Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The French, who began the scheme in 1932, planned on developing about 1,000,000 hectares over a period of 50 years. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aw, Dibril, Dejou, Chantel
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION
ANIMAL TRACTION
COTTON
COTTON PRODUCTION
CROPPING
DEGRADATION
DISEASES
DRAINAGE
EXPORT
FARMERS
FERTILIZER
FERTILIZERS
FOOD SECURITY
GREEN REVOLUTION
HIGH YIELDING VARIETIES
HIGH-YIELDING VARIETIES
IRRIGATION
LAND DEVELOPMENT
LAND TENURE
MARKETING
PADDY
PADDY YIELDS
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRODUCTION OF PADDY
PRODUCTION SYSTEM
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMS
RICE
RICE -GROWING REGION
RICE MILLS
RICE PRODUCTION
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SEEDLINGS
SOIL DEGRADATION
SOWING
SUB-REGION
TRANSPLANTING
WATER FEES
WATER MANAGEMENT
YIELDS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/04/12845410/office-du-niger-ensuring-food-security-mali
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9970
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Summary:Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The French, who began the scheme in 1932, planned on developing about 1,000,000 hectares over a period of 50 years. The original objectives were to: 1) supply the French textile industry with a large share of its needs in cotton; and 2) significantly contribute to food security for the whole Sahelian region of the French Empire with a modern and commercial rice production system. In short, the ON had drained huge public resources with little result. From the mid-1970s, the ON focused sharply on developing the area into a major national and regional rice-producing resource.

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