| Titre | L'orangeraie et les cultures maraîchères d'Ambohijafy. Paysage original dans les Plaines de Tananarive | |
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| Auteur | Danielle Champigny-Giroflier | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 70, 1978 | |
| Page | 97-118 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Orange-Groves and Market-Gardens at Ambohijafy. An Uncommon Sight in the Plains of Tananarive.
The Plains of Tananarive are composed of two areas: the lowlands (about 4,200 feet above sea-level) which can be flooded and are devoted to rice-growing; and the hills (tanety) overlooking these lowlands by 70-850 feet. Most often, people grow subsistence crops on these hills (such as cassava plants, yams. . .), but for about 50 years and particularly since the end of the last war, part of the tanety cultivated land has been devoted to market-gardening and fruit-growing. Ambohijafy village concentrates on that marketable produce in the small valleys penetrating into the mass of the hill, and on the lower slopes. That cultivation, particularly that of citrus fruit, gives the Ambohijafy area quite a particular look and above all provides the villagers with high income as compared to loca conditions.
Ambohijafy, supplying the market of Tananarive, gives us an uncommon image of the relations between a village and a large city in Madagascar, an image of "active dependence". Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1978_num_70_1_2394 |
