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Senegal Achieves Rice Sustenance, Plans Exports - Wade
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:12
Bloomberg - Senegal is producing enough rice to meet domestic needs and export the surplus, President Abdoulaye
Wade said. Last year’s harvest was 640,000 metric tons of rice, 40,000 tons more domestic demand, Wade said at a conference in the capital of Dakar today. The yield was more than triple that of 2006, he said. A program with India will boost production to 1.1 million tons in a few years, he said.
“We’re going to produce 600,000 tons for local consumption and have a further 500,000 tons for export,” he said.
Senegal produced a record 1.286 million tons of peanuts last year, Wade said. Peanuts account for 60 percent of the country’s agricultural exports, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The state sets farm gate prices at 165 West African CFA (35 cents) a kilogram (2.2 pounds) during the December to May harvest. The Agriculture Ministry plans to extend the set price outside the harvest to support farmers, he said. Peanut oil exports by Senegal’s Suneor, the country’s biggest peanut-oil processing company, account for as much as half of world supply, according to a 2007 report by the USDA.
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I am recommending that you return to school. I wish you never run for any office in our country. God help us all. have a good day!!
I guessed my degree is useless then in my work. tat said I never said anything that Gambia have natural resources. what are u on about? Are you smoking jamba?
Manneh, I will be final with you now, I care about what is happening to gambia now now with a primitive depot from Kanilai period. If you are those nutters talking about roads and hospitals go ahead since Gambia has 2m people and do the maths what that means now. U are too a nutter for me to have a debate. The same antic argument jawara that jawara this. While yahya jammeh personal owns allmost all agric and businesss and is putting out millions dollars and dalasis on that state house table monthly without you having a clue where it came from yet you want to talk about thievery and jawara. This tells a lot about you and your opinion of Gambia. Have a good life with your facts about thievery. if you think Jawara was corrupt and this primitive Jammeh is saint then U need help.
This is what people meant by primitive in regards to primitive Jammeh. Everything is there to see with primitive Jammeh.God is my witness. I am definitely not primitive and sure U are not too. I am sure you know who is tribalist in Gambia and affecting your country and people. I think you are too narrow minded for me if you dont mind me saying that. Jawara who is history and a stateman developed gambia more the British 400 yrs if that how you view development. You can go and count what Jawara did in Gambia which was not present in British rule. Again Anarcho-primitivism will fit you here since progress stagnate with Jammeh. Look, have a good day and try not to mess with me about Gambia. I meant Good for Gambian people Manneh. cheers
Please, you are cannot be that blind to believe that Yahya Jammeh is a democratic and a good leader who respect oppositions and human rights. Not to mention the people he killed and continues to imprison without trial and his corruption of every institution in Gambia. Please stop talking about this illiterate tyrant man as if you are talking about normal good person. You sound like
an antelope telling his fellow antelopes how good hearted a Hyena is!!!!
Casamance is part of Senegal, but unfortunately tribal bandits are terrorising its people to live decently. I don’t how much you knew its Casamance region, but Senegal’s Natural resources are fish, Phosphates, iron ore, unexploited deposits of gold, copper, titanium and peat. None of these is mines or have extract from its Casamance region. Senegal have many rivers and many industrial farms are located in the north along its river border with Mauritania down to Bakel (kidira) rivers where a Bridge and a Train bridge is built (unlike River Gambia) connecting Bamako. Tambacounda to the border with Guinea Conakry have lots of farms land and its where our water in river Gambia passes. Senegal Natural resources are NOT from Casamnce. You are literate to research this in the internet from IMF etc… and use satellite images to locate these developments. This just a myth, as Abdurahman said if I not mistaken,
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