Sugarcane

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.

It represents approximately 1% of the total area of ​​the country. The Sudanese zone, bounded on the north by a line from the 15th degree of latitude west to just below the 14th degree east. This is the wettest part of the country with more than 600 mm per year. The humidity is increased in the southwestern tip that receives up to 870 mm (Gaya). Agricultural region, she knows, next to a savannah vegetation, millet crop, sorghum, maize and groundnuts.