Livestock feed markets across seasons in periurban areas of Niger: seller and buyer profiles, feed price and quality

Augustine A. Ayantunde; Kalilou Adamou; Garba Seybou; Oumarou Moumouni

doi:10.19182/remvt.36921

Authors

A.A. Ayantunde, K. Adamou, G. Seybou, O. Moumouni

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19182/remvt.36921

Keywords

Peri-urban agriculture, feeding systems, feed resources, prices, nutritive value, Sahel, Niger

Abstract

Livestock productivity in West African Sahel is constrained by seasonal scarcity of feed and by its low quality in the dry season. Feed resources scarcity in the region has also been aggravated by the increase in livestock population, which has heightened the demand for feed, particularly in periurban areas. Livestock feed markets have thus sprung up in many cities and towns. To understand the dynamics of these markets, surveys were conducted in five of them in Maradi and five others in Niamey, Niger, in the early dry season (October-November 2019), late dry season (March-June 2020), and wet season (August-September 2020) with a semi-structured questionnaire. Results showed that diverse feed types were sold or bought, and mainly by adult male vendors or buyers, in both markets across seasons. The buyers gave as major reasons for purchasing livestock feed the insufficient household feed biomass, the poor-quality household feed, and the need for supplementary feeds to maintain and improve animal performance. Prices of livestock feeds at both markets varied significantly with season, market location and feed type. In both sites, prices of legume residues (cowpea hay, cowpea husk, groundnut haulm) were higher than the other feed types. Results further showed that there was no clear relationship between price and nutritional quality across seasons.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Affiliations

A.A. Ayantunde
ayantunde@hotmail.com
c/o International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), BP 24265 Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal.
K. Adamou International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Niamey, Niger.
G. Seybou International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Niamey, Niger.
O. Moumouni International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Niamey, Niger.

References

Amole T., Ayantunde A., Balehegn M., Adesogan A.T., 2022a. Livestock feed resources in the West African Sahel. Agron. J., 114: 26-45

Amole T.A., Panyan E., Adekeye A., Ayantunde A., Duncan A., Blummel M., 2022b. Productivity nutritive value and economic potential of irrigated fodder in two regions of Ghana. Agron. J., 114: 148-164

Ayantunde A.A., Fernández-Rivera S., Hiernaux P.H.Y., van Keulen H., Udo H.M.J., Chanono M., 2001. Effect of timing and duration of grazing of growing cattle in the West African Sahel on diet selection, faecal output, eating time, forage intake and live-weight changes. Anim. Sci., 72: 117-128

Ayantunde A.A., Delfosse P., Fernández-Rivera S., Gerard B., Dan Gomma A., 2007. Supplementation with groundnut haulms for sheep fattening in the West African Sahel. Trop. Anim. Health Prod., 39: 207-216

Ayantunde A.A, Blummel M., Grings E., Duncan A.J., 2014. Price and quality of livestock feeds in suburban markets of West Africa’s Sahel: Case study from Bamako, Mali. Rev. Elev. Med. Vet. Pays Trop., 67 (1): 13-21

Ayantunde A.A., Duncan A.J., van Wijk M.T., Thorne P., 2018. Review: Role of herbivores in sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Animal, 12 (S2): s199–s209

Balehegn M., Duncan A., Tolera A., Ayantunde A.A., Issa S., Karimou M., Zampaligré N., et al., 2020. Improving adoption of technologies and interventions for increasing supply of quality livestock feed in low- and middle-income countries. Glob. Food Secur., 26: 100372

Debrah S., Sissoko K., Soumare S., 1995.Etude économique de la production laitière dans la zone périurbaine de Bamako au Mali. Rev. Elev. Med. Vet. Pays Trop., 48 (1): 101-109

Doamba G.E., 2020. Evaluation de la disponibilité, de la variabilité et des prix des ressources alimentaires pour bétail dans la ville de Ouagadougou. Master économie appliquée, Université Saint Thomas d’Aquin, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Fox L., Senbet L.W., Simbanegavi W., 2016. Youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges, constraints and opportunities. J. Afri. Econ., 25 (suppl 1): i3–i15

Graef S., Schlecht E., Buerkert A., 2008. Opportunities and challenges of urban and periurban agriculture in Niamey, Niger. Outlook Agric., 37: 47-56

Jarial S., Blummel M., Soumana I., Prasad K.V.S.V., Issa S., Ravi D., 2017. Price quality relationships in fodder trading in Niger with special regards to comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulms with concentrates, collected shrubs and grasses. Legumes4Africa, Pan-African Grain Legume & World Cowpea Conf., 27 Feb-4 March 2017, Livingstone, Zambia

Jarial S., Blummel M., Soumana I., Ravi D., Issa S., Whitbread A., Tabo R., 2016. Legume residue trade in crop-livestock markets of Niger. In: Pan-African Grain and World Cowpea Conf., Feb. 28 - Mar 4, 2016, Livingstone, Zambia

Roessler R., Mpouam S.E., Muchemwa T., Schlecht E., 2016. Emerging development pathways of urban livestock production in rapidly growing West Africa cities. Sustainability, 8: 1199

SAS, 1987. SAS/STAT for personal computers. SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA

Traore A.T., 2016. Etude sur les chaines de valeur biomasse fourragère dans la zone agro-pastorale du Yatenga au Burkina Faso, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya

Wane A., Touré I., Ancey V., 2010. Pastoralisme et recours aux marchés – cas du Sahel Sénégalais (Ferlo). Cah. Agric. 19 (1): 1-7

Wane A., Touré I., Ickowicz A., 2014. Changing environment and market behaviours of Sahelian herders. 6th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, 27–30 Oct. 2014, Nairobi, Kenya