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Date de publication : 30-11--0001

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Auteur : ired.org

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"Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest irrigated areas in West Africa. It was started in the 1930s in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali,\r\nabout 250 km north of Bamako. At the outset, the intention was to produce cotton for the textile industries of colonial France. The initial objectives\r\nwere very ambitious with 1 million ha to be developed over 50 years. The reality however has been different. The area that has been developed\r\ncurrently covers 90,000 ha and rice has replaced cotton. Half of Malian rice is produced here. There are about 253 villages, 35,000 farms and\r\n417,000 inhabitants in ON. Most of these farms operate on the basis of an annual contract, in which a “water fee” is paid in exchange for land\r\nuse and tenure rights."\r\n\r\n"SOS Faim, Farming dynamics august 2012 no 27"\r\n\r\nd