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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okr-10986-99702021-04-23T14:02:48Z Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali Aw, Dibril Dejou, Chantel 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 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. 2012-08-13T10:01:19Z 2012-08-13T10:01:19Z 1996-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/04/12845410/office-du-niger-ensuring-food-security-mali http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9970 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 61 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa |
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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 |
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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 Aw, Dibril Dejou, Chantel Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali |
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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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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Aw, Dibril Dejou, Chantel |
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Aw, Dibril Dejou, Chantel |
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Aw, Dibril |
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Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali |
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Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali |
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Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali |
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Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali |
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Office du Niger : Ensuring Food Security for Mali |
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office du niger : ensuring food security for mali |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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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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