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MANUFACTURING SEMI-WHOLESALING RETAILINGWHOLESALING NGOs/FOOD BANKS

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JULY 2007Due to equipment problems,

fails to manufacture PICS bags

to required specs

JUNE 2007

manufacturer PICS bags

JULY 2007World Vision, INRAN, DRAs launch training,

JUNE 2007Business consultant

and facilitate bag ordersDEC 2007

By December,

completed in 100 villages

MAY 2008

signed with EST Tera Salifou covering Burkina

Faso and Niger

JUNE-NOV 2008

staged in 4,243 villages

MAY 2009Project orders 100,000

bags from Lela Agro, financing 100%

AUG-DEC 2008Radiio spots begin

airing in Hausa and Jirmaaround Niamey,Maradi, Zinder;

buyers against Lela Agro ofmissing/damaged bags

MAY 2009Based on feedback, 50kg bags replaced

by 100kg bags

MAY 2011Nat’l Distributor

ZANGUINA orders 77,000 from Lela Agro

JULY 2011PICS vendor

to coordinatebag procurement

for 2011 cowpea season

MAR-APR 2010Change of regional semi-wholesalers in

Tahoua, Niamey, Zinder and Maradi

NOV 201050 producer

groups, 4 NGOs and others

trained

NOV 20092 Biz Consultats

recruited; SANGUINA assumes role as

Nat’l Distributor, replacing Sani Gado

JUNE 200956 rural community

PICS messages in 7 local languages

DEC 2009Cellphone diffusion

of training video in Hausa begins

JAN 2010Private vendors begin replacing extension agents

SEPT 2008Food Products Office

of Niger (OPVN)procures 650,000

3-ply bags

OCT-DEC 2010PICS bags

spots begin airing

French, Hausa, Zarma; PICS vendor invests

20% in local radio spots

DEC 2009Wholesaler Sani

Gado orders 10,000 from

Lela Agro

SEPT-OCT 2011Reports of illicit OPVN

bags being sold atdiscount in markets

AUG 200914 vendors meet

in Maradi to discussSC issues and to plan

for coming season

DEC 2010-FEB2011CRS organizes

trade fairs employingvoucher system

OCT-DEC 2011Weak sales of PICS bags

due to poor harvest

NOV 2010Rupture in the

PICS supply chain

MAY 2009OPVN procures

800,0003-ply bags from

Fasoplast and ETSNassoumou ABOU

NOV 2010PICS bags changed

from 80kg to 100KG; training of 49 PICS vendors

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

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Lela Agro(Kano, Nigeria)

Fasoplast(Ougadougou, BF)

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Omarou DAN MALKA (Niamey, Tillabery)

Husa’a Enterprise(Dosso)

Assoumane SALIFOU(Tahoua)

Maman NA IYA (Maradi)

Malan Manirou OUMAROU (Zinder)

OPVN

N=2 N=5 N=61

ETS Nassamou ABDOUL(Niamey)

NGOs

FIGURE 1 - Annual Procurement of PICS Bags in NigerFIGURE 2 - Timeline of Events in NigerFIGURE 3 - Organizational Map of the PICS Supply Chain in NigerFIGURE 4 - Map of PICS Vendor Networks in Niger