LE MARAICHAGE EN MILIEU URBAIN ET PERIURBAIN : CAS DE LA VILLE DE N’DJAMENA AU TCHAD

Abstract

This study conducted as part of the Master Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, is on the Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in the city of N'Djamena through the market gardening sector. It aims to provide elements characterizing this activity.
To collect and analyze data, a focus group was conducted with 92 market gardeners about constraints to the development of market gardening followed by individual survey of 61 producers on production techniques.
The analysis of the results, with the Excel XLSTAT software, allowed us to characterize the agriculture through the actors, types of spaces, types of crops and the products obtained. It appears from this study that the producers are mostly men (67.21%) with an average age of 35 years.
In N'Djamena, market gardening is an activity located in the administrative reserves (34.43%) and private property (65.57%). These holdings, with more or less uniform technical itineraries in all production sites, are highly diversified in terms of price speculation although leafy greens dominate with 47% share of the products obtained. However many problems are an obstacle to development of this sector.
The results may enable researchers, NGOs, decision makers and town administrator to have useful information about the importance of this sector.