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THE PROPOSAL
The Hand in Hand initiative for Niger is closely aligned with the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agricultural Development (SAN/DAD) strategy, the Presidential Programme on Agro-industrial Poles through planned investments in two strategic value chains - tomato and cowpea. The selected commodities will contribute to reducing the import bill for concentrated tomato and increase export of cowpea as well as job creation. The use of by-products will improve the availability of nutritional products (proteins and vitamins). Productivity will be increased by adopting Climate Resilient Technologies and Practices.
Poverty
Potential
Efficiency
COMMODITIES AND INTERVENTIONS
Tomato
The objective is to increase productivity through investments in the development of small-scale irrigation in large production basins to ensure a regular supply for agro-industry promoted by the Agro-industrial Poles program.Current national production levels stand at 376,000 tones with an average national yield of 27t/ha, below national demand; Niger imports 10,000 tons of tomato concentrate each year.
The investments would increase productivity in two regions (Dosso and Tahoua) by developing an appropriate irrigation system with less water loss and close monitoring. This will allow to provide the national market and agro-industry with 72,900 additional tons (fresh and concentrated tomatoes) produced on 2700ha targeted by the Initiative. This would also lead to a significant reduction in the country dependence on tomato imports, and create some 64,800 additional jobs. The expected internal rate of return (IRR) is 41% for a total investment cost of US$58.47M
COMMODITIES AND INTERVENTIONS
Cowpea
Niger is the second largest producer of cowpea in the world, which contributes 14% to the national GDP. Cowpea producers are estimated at 2,000,000 on an area estimated at 5,719,499 h in 2020. Total production amounts to 2.62 million tons in 2020 with a yield of 460 kg/ha for a potential yield of 1 to 1.5t/ha.The investments would support the cowpea sector in two regions (Tahoua and Dosso) reaching some 88,750 family farms over an area of 66,562 hectares by promoting use of appropriate production techniques based on the increased use of quality inputs, and through improved access to market by development and support for the operationalization of the Zinder Agropole and export.
These investments would create 37,540 jobs for young people for an IRR of 32% and a total investment cost of 73.8M US dollars cited internal rate of return is 23.21%.
RESOURCES
See Niger's investment plan slide deck presentation in French and in English from 2022. Updated priorities and investments are being developed for the 2023 Hand in Hand IF.
CONTACT
For more information, please contact the Hand-in-Hand team.