- L'ECONOMIE
DU NIGER
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- Money
- Agriculture
- Fishing
- Breeding
- Industries
- Mines and
energy
- Craft
- Tourism
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- MONEY
:
- It's CFA : 100 francs CFA =
1 FF
- GNP in 1993 : 2.31 milliard
$US
- Groth rate of GNP
(1985-1993) : 1 %
- Activity per inhabitant
(1993) : 270 $US
- France is the first
commercial partner with 40% of the market. Other exports from
Niger, are steered towards Japon (18 %), Libya (15 %), Germany
(10.3 %), l'Italy (5 %).
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- The evolution of the economic situation of
Niger is commanded at first by the receipts of uranium, but its
cotation is decreasing since the 1980s, and by agricultural
production, subject to a very unpredictable
climate.
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- AGRICULTURE
:
- Many parameters still limit the
agricultural development: the climate, the irregular rains, lack
of water, poverty of grounds, the means to cultivate lands... Only
12 % of the territory are cultivable and only 3 % of lands are
cultured. The agriculture makes the quasi-totality of the
population live.The production is widely dedicated to the culture
of the mil and the sorghum often associated to the
niébé bean and in the manioc. The rice develops more
and more notably on banks fitted out by Niger. The cotton and the
groundnut remain a source mattering of incomes for the state and
the farmers. One also cultivates dates, tobacco, wheat, corn...
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- FISHING
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- 1 % of GDP. The zones of
fishing are along the river Niger and of Komadougou which joins
the Lake Chad.
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- BREEDING
:
- The big aridities ruined the second
economic activity of Niger and decimated a big part of the
livestock. Goats: 7.5 millions, ovine race: 3.5 millions, bovine
race: 3.5 millions, camels: 417 000.
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- INDUSTRY
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- The main industries of
Niger belong to agricultural and food sectors. Oil-works of
groundnuts, flour-mills of mil, wheat, sorghum. Breweries assuring
the production of local beer and carbonated drinks. Industry of
treatment of meat, leather, dairy products. Factories of cotton
transformation. Building materials. Small chemical
industries.
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- MINES
AND ENERGY :
- 12.6 % of the
GDP
- Coal, Uranium (4TH world
row and first continental row), important mining reserves: iron,
phosphates, lithium, manganese...Mine industries, requesting a
huge amount of eletricity, are at the origin of a
thermoélectrique power plant in the massif of
Aïr.
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- CRAFT
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- Craft is no doubt a part of the economy of
Niger and plays an important role in its development. Weavers,
Lumberjacks, Sculptors...
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- TOURISM
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- The tourism is not very run in spite of
interesting perspectives. The variety of the landscapes, the
beauty of cities and peoples offer an extremely attractive
country.
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