Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Seedlings Transplanting as Climate Adaptation Option for Smallholder Farmers in Niger

Pearl millet is the most widely grown cereal crop in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa, Niger particular. To determine an optimized management strategy for smallholder farmers southern to cope with production failure improve cropping performance context climate change variability, multi-site trials were conducted evaluate impacts transplanting on pearl growth productivity. Eight treatments viz. T1-0NPK (100% without NPK), T1-NPK + T2-0NPK empty hills T2-NPK T3-0NPK (50% T3-NPK T4-0NPK (farmer practice T4-NPK NPK) included experiment. Compared farmer practice, significantly reduced time tillering, flowering, maturity stages by 15%, 27%, 11%, respectively. The results also revealed that increased panicle weight, total biomass, grain yield, plant height 40%, 38%, 23%, Farmers’ evaluations experiments supported these findings, indicating three substantial advantages transplanting, including higher yield (37.50% responses), larger, more vigorous panicles (34.17% good tillering (28.33% responses). An economic profitability analysis system biomass gain (XOF 359,387/ha) 324,388/ha) 34% 22%, respectively, T1-NPK. Therefore, it can be inferred a promising adapting cultivation variability Niger.