Niamey Farm Show

It was fair time this past week in Niamey.   Saturday morning we grabbed a taxi and spent 2 hours wandering around the exhibitions.   We LOVED it!  So many fun things to see. It reminded us of a state or county fair in the US because every region in Niamey brought the biggest and best of their produce, including animals, crops, vegetables, machinery , etc.

This mama goat had 4 kids.  

The baby camel with his mama.

A cow who birthed triplets.

I'd never seen such clean and white sheep and goats.  They washed up well.  

There were onions and more onions and all sorts of ways to use onions. 

Spear-head millet.

Tom loved visiting with the vendors.  

He even was interviewed by the local TV station.  When asked what it was he was hoping to see here but hadn't seen, his comment was  "a tractor".  

Lots of different beans.

And, of course, no fair is complete without the giant pumpkins.  The largest weighed 40 kgs or 88 pounds.

Tom loved checking out the wheat, raised in Agadez.  It looks like ours but we know it didn't survive any winter temps so it's not hard winter wheat. 

Hot peppers. I love the colors. 

That's some tall sugar cane. 

There wasn't too much machinery there;  except what could be run by human or animal power.

A ox pulled plow and other essential tools of the trade. 

A peanut sheller and a peanut oil press (below).

You can take the boy from the farm but you can't take the farm out of the boy!  A great time.