Outcome Analysis Report – Nigeria – February 2013

  • Date 26/02/2013

The three livelihood zones are primarily agricultural supporting a wide variety of rainfed crops suited to dryland areas including millet, sorghum, maize, cowpeas, groundnuts, sesame, cotton as well as (increasingly) soybeans.2 Rain-fed agriculture is carried out during the single rainy season which runs from April/May to October.

The peak months of rainfall are June to August. In the dry season, rice, wheat and market vegetables are grown on low lying river flood plains (i.e., fadama) either through irrigation or flood retreat agriculture. Fadama agriculture is limited in the Zamfara Cotton & Groundnut (CGC) Zone and the Katsina Millet & Sesame (MAS) Zone but is extensive in the Hadejia Valley (Jigawa) (HVM) zone. The main period of harvest is from September to November.

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