Pearl millet is the major food cereal cultivated in the Sahelian
agro-ecological of Niger on coarser textured soils using up to 90%
of the cropped area (Bationo et al., 1993). Even though this crop has
a potential to adapt to harsh conditions, particularly low soil fertility,
its yield is often very low with an average of 400 kg ha−1 in low
input smallholder millet farming systems (Sivakumar and Salaam,