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[[Image:Niger sorghum map and season.png|thumb|right|140px|Map and growing season for the Nigerien [[Sorghum]] crop. Chart shows [[Normalized Difference Vegetation Index]] against Long Rains Dry Season (July – February), measuring normal years crop growth in the major Sorghum producing areas of Niger.<ref name="pecad.fas.usda.gov">[http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/chartview.cfm?ftypeid=4&fattributeid=1&stypeid=4&sattributeid=15&cntryid=NG&startdate=2008%2D07%2D01%2000%3A00%3A00%2E0&d=37361®ionid=wafrica ]{{dead link|date=January 2016}}</ref>]]
[[Image:Niger rice map and season.png|thumb|right|140px|Map and growing season for the Nigerien [[Rice]] crop. Chart shows [[Normalized Difference Vegetation Index]] against Long Rains Dry Season (July - Feb), measuring normal years crop growth in the major Rice producing areas of Niger.<ref name="pecad.fas.usda.gov"/>]]
The agricultural economy is based largely upon internal markets, subsistence agriculture, and the export of raw commodities: food stuffs and cattle to neighbors. [[Niger]], a landlocked [[Sub-Sahara]] African nation, and over the past two decades has consistently been ranked near or at the bottom of worldwide indexes of the [[Human development index]], [[GDP]], and per capita income. Economic activity centres on subsistence agriculture, animal husbandry, re-export trade, and export of [[uranium]]. The 50% devaluation of the West African CFA franc in January, 1994 boosted exports of [[livestock]], [[cowpea]]s, [[onion]]s, and the products of Niger's small [[cotton]] industry. Exports of cattle to neighboring [[Nigeria]], as well as [[Macrotyloma geocarpum|Groundnuts]] and their oil remain the primary non-mineral exports.<ref name=ussd2009>[
==Overall economy==
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