Djiratawa

Djiratawa rural community
Djiratawa rural community
Coordinates	13 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 8'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Maradi
department	Madarounfa
Residents	85,976 (2012)

Djiratawa (also: Djirataoua ) is a rural community in the Madarounfa department in Niger .

geography

Djiratawa is located in the greater Sudan landscape and is an eastern suburb of the regional capital Maradi . The other neighboring communities of Djiratawas are Saé Saboua in the north, Tchadoua in the east, Dan-Issa and Madarounfa in the south and Safo in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 55 administrative villages, 27 hamlets, 20 camps. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Djiratawa (also: Djirataoua).

history

The French colonial administration established a canton in Djiratawa in 1944 . The rural community of Djiratawa emerged from the canton of Djiratawa in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.

population

At the 2001 census, Djiratawa had 54,359 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 85,976. The administrative village of Houdel in the municipality of Djiratawa is a traditional center of the Azna .

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced. Sorghum , cotton , corn , cassava , okra , allspice and moringa are grown from May to November, and wheat , onions , peanuts , sweet potatoes and cassava from December to March . The buyers of the cotton from Djiratawa are traders from the city of Maradi and from Nigeria . Grains, sweet potatoes and moringa are sold directly to end users in Maradi. National Road 1 runs through Djiratawa and is part of the international Dakar-N'Djamena Highway .

literature

• Mahamane Hamissou Adamou: Etude du salariat agricole dans le département de Madarounfa. Cas du périmètre irrigué de Djiratawa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2008.
• Ibrahim Jadi Abara: Le budget des principales cultures. Cas du périmètre irrigué de Djiratawa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2008.
• Bachir Maazou: The commercialization des produits agricoles sur le périmètre de Djirataoua . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2008.
• Mahaman Bassirou Yahaya Idi: Analysis of the performance financière et organizationnelle du périmètre irrigué de Djiratawa . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 246.
4. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 54.
5. ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French). 
6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 50.
7. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8. 
8. ↑ Boukary Habsatou, El Hadj Saminou, Younoussa Idrissa, Ahmed Salifou: Diagnostic participatif rapide et planification des actions du périmètre de Djirataoua. (PDF) (No longer available online.) International Water Management Institute, June 2010, pp. 24 and 30 , archived from the original on April 22, 2014 ; Retrieved April 21, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.