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Vegetable

Garlic

📍 Niger

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

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Sow Harvest
Sow
Nov – Jan
Harvest
Mar – May
Growing period
120 days
Seeding rate
700 - 800 kg/ha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Garlic grows in Niger

dry arid

Saharan region, desert

It covers 77% of the country and receives less than 150 mm per an.La Saharan zone, immense, covers the remainder of the country. thorny vegetation and perennial herbaceous carpets are becoming increasingly rare as we advance towards the north and northeast. No culture are possible except in Koris in the center, where gardening is practiced, and the oases of dal1s Kaouar and Djado northeast. The temperature this very extreme scored: very hot day and very cold at night.

dry arid

Sahel

It covers 10% of the country and receives 350 to 600 mm per year and is constituted of a forest-steppe; Livestock is kind of transhumance; in this zone, cereal production are random Humidity decreases eastward and especially to the north. Marked by a thorn steppe vegetation and acacia trees, it remains the livestock favorite region. She gradually gave way to the Sahara which it is separated by the northern limit of crops under rain band poorly defined that substantially follows the 16th parallel, with a shift east-southeast.

Looking for another crop? Browse the full Niger crop calendar or the Garlic guide for other countries.