Tobacco
| Tabalak rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 6 ′ N , 5 ° 39 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tahoua | |||
| department | Abalak | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 42,520 (2012) | ||
Tabalak is a rural municipality in the department Abalak in Niger .
geography
Tobacco is located in the northern Sahel zone . The neighboring communities are Kao in the northwest, Akoubounou in the northeast, Keita in the south and Kalfou in the southwest. The municipality is divided into nine administrative villages, eleven traditional villages, eleven hamlets, a camp and a water point.
The main town of the rural community is the village of Tabalak. It is located on a lake, the Mare de Tabalak . The wetlands of the Mare de Tabalak were declared a Ramsar area in 2005, which covers 107,100 hectares.
history
Tabalak was originally a small Tuareg village that attracted large numbers of immigrants during the drought in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s, the economic importance of the fishery operated on the Mare de Tabalak and other small lakes, which until then had only been carried out by a few migrant Nigerians and Nigerians from the Niger River , grew . Fishing complemented cattle breeding, a traditional domain of the Tuareg, and agriculture , which was mainly practiced by Hausa . In 1974 a weekly market was established in Tabalak. The supra-regionally important trade in fish went hand in hand with an increasing urbanization of tobacco. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the independent rural community of Tabalak was created in a previously unincorporated area.
population
At the 2001 census, tobacco had 12,999 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 42,520.
Economy and Infrastructure
Tabalak is located on national road 25 , which connects the place with the regional capitals Agadez and Tahoua .
literature
- Fati Garba: L'implication des femmes du village de Tabalak dans la vie socio-économique à travers le maraîchage . Mémoire. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.case.ibimet.cnr.it/den/Documents/code_rural/cdrom/doc%20pdf/Loi%20N%B02002-14%20cr%E9ation%20des%20communes.pdf (link not available)
- ↑ La Mare de Tabalak. In: Ramsar Sites Information Service. April 13, 2018, accessed March 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Anne Luxereau: Les produits de terroir au Niger . In: Christine Raimond, Éric Garine, Olivier Langlois: Ressources vivrières et choix alimentaire dans le basin du lac Tchad . IRD, Marseille 2005, ISBN 2-7099-1576-6 , p. 273.
- ^ 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. 55.
- ↑ 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 May 1, 2014 (French).
