ANALYSE DE LA CHAINE DE VALEUR DES PALMES DE HYPHAENE THEBAICA(L. MART.) DELA VALLEE DE GOULBI NKABA DANS LA REGION DE MARADI AU NIGER

Faced with the effects of drought and human pressure, rural households have developed a coping strategy by exploiting and marketing palms. This study, conducted in the Maradi region, aims to analyze the palm value chain in order to assess the contribution of palm exploitation to community resilience. The methodology used is based on individual surveys in which 580 actors were interviewed and focus groups involving 6 palms counter management committees. This work revealed the presence of a diversity actors includingharvestors, processors, traders (semi-wholesalers and wholesalers) and consumers who work for the regular functioning of the palm value chain through the established of palms counters. It also emerges from this value chain analysis that each socio-professional group benefits according to its level of involvement and the scale at which it operates. In total, 40,826,460 FCFA are derived from the sale of palms and their by-products per operating season for all the actors surveyed, i.e. an average of 70,390 FCFA per season and per actor. The palms counters have an annual turnover of 278,824,927 FCFA for the five years of activity, i.e. 9,294,164.26 FCFA per counter per year. The revenues and taxes collected allow communities to strengthen their resilience to poverty and food insecurity.