Africa-Press – Senegal. Le gouvernement a déclaré mardi avoir subventionné de plus de 50 % quelque 2.200 tonnes d’aliments de bétail pour réduire les prix des moutons et aider les ménages à les acheter pour la fête de Tabaski, le sacrifice d’Abraham à commémorer par les musulmans mercredi 29 juin.
« The State has set up a livestock feed subsidy system […] It has made available to breeders 2,200 tons of livestock feed subsidized at more than 50%, » said Samba Ndiobène Ka, the Minister of Community Development, Solidarity, Social and Territorial Equity.
Speaking on behalf of Prime Minister and Livestock Minister Amadou Ba at a government press conference, he said Senegalese, Mauritanian and Malian breeders in Senegal were benefiting from the subsidy.
Le gouvernement a subventionné le prix de l’aliment de bétail pour permettre aux éleveurs de dépenser peu pour l’alimentation des moutons, afin de pouvoir les vendre aux ménages à des tarifs abordables, selon M. Ka.
Last Sunday, eleven days before the Tabaski festival, there were some 84,200 sheep in Dakar, against 123,000 at the same time last year, a deficit of 38,800 heads, he said.
The violent demonstrations that have occurred in several cities of the country are at the origin of this deficit, according to Samba Ndiobène Ka.
“At the national level, there is a deficit of more than 2,000 heads,” he noted, assuring that the Prime Minister, by a decree of Sunday June 18, discharged the breeders, including those from Mauritania, part of the taxes and customs duties to be paid.
Les contrôles exercés sur les éleveurs étrangers à l’entrée du territoire sénégalais ont été aussi assouplis, selon M. Ka.
Il assure que toutes les dispositions nécessaires ont été prises pour renforcer la sécurité des éleveurs et de leurs biens.
Samba Ndiobène Ka, former Minister of Livestock, says an annual average of 550,000 sheep come from abroad each year to supply Senegalese households for the Tabaski, which will take place on Wednesday June 29.
A program implemented since 2017 has enabled Senegal to sharply reduce sheep imports by 50%, Ka said.
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