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The remaining is classified as fadama irrigation, which resulted from the NFDP.
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Low-lying areas flooded during the wet season, known as fadama areas, are scattered across the ecological zones of Guinea Savanna, Sudan Savanna, and the Sahel.
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Major fadama areas are located along the flood plains of the Niger, Sokoto Rima, Benue, and Yobe rivers.
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Where cultural practices are enforced strictly, so that married women cannot engage directly in fadama farming, they cultivate land they may inherit or purchase by using the labor of their husbands, friends, other male relatives or hired workers.
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Extensive areas of fadama, fisheries and wildlife habitats were wiped out.
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Single-cylinder water-cooled diesel motor driving a pump and extracting from a tubewell in a fadama or in alluvial plains.
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Dry-season farming on fadama lands has two advantages for farmers:
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Farmer-owned and - operated small pump schemes, mostly of the fadama type, continue to expand.
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Pilot asset acquisition support, to enhance the fadama users 'productivity and income by facilitating their acquisition of productive assets;
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They became involved in irrigation in the early 1980s, mainly in small-scale fadama development.
hernesheir commented on the word fadama
Zarma word meaning "marshy soil".
February 8, 2010