Fishing is one of the main economic activities in the Diffa region, with revenues of nearly 70 billion according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Livestock. It is therefore an activity that makes a major contribution to ensuring food security and combating poverty in the Diffa region, while also helping to create jobs for young people.
However, the fishing industry faces enormous difficulties, which can be summed up as the problem of organising producers, marketing throughout the chain, collection and conservation techniques and infrastructure.
As part of the implementation of the activities of the Programme de Résilience pour la Sauvegarde de la Patrie (Resilience Programme for the Safeguard of the Homeland), the Government of Niger has targeted the fish sector as a key activity to be promoted to support the people of the Diffa region. It was against this backdrop that the West African Food System Resilience Programme in Niger (PRSA_Niger) was asked to strengthen the fish marketing counter in Diffa.
Based on the constraints currently identified at the fish market, the PRSA will focus its activities on rehabilitating the fish marketing centre by: (i) finalising the civil engineering work on the main building, (ii) building the fish market's own water station, (iii) connecting the fish market to the Nigelec network (the Niger electricity company) and, finally, (iv) providing the fish market with refrigerated lorries to facilitate distribution to other regions.
All in all, more than 3,000 beneficiaries will benefit from this support to improve their income from fish marketing in Diffa.
