Africa-Press – Senegal. The Senegalese Cashew Competitiveness Support Project (PACAS) handed over agricultural equipment worth seventy million francs to actors in the sector in Sédhiou, Ziguinchor and Kolda to boost production, APS found.
»The Senegalese cashew competitiveness support project, exclusively financed by the State of Senegal, has a total cost of one billion 680 million francs to boost the value chain of the cashew sector. It is in this context that he made available to stakeholders in the sector in Sédhiou, Ziguinchor and Kolda a batch of agricultural equipment estimated at seventy million francs and thirty thousand grafted cashew trees,” declared , Thursday, Ousmane Ka, Coordinator of the National Integrated Framework Implementation Unit at the Ministry of Commerce.
Speaking at the official handover ceremony, Mr. Ka, also responsible for the implementation of PACAS, « it is a three-year project concerning the entire value chain of the cashew sector of the production through processing and marketing in areas such as Sine-Saloum, the Niayes area and Casamance”.
For Boubacar Konta, president of the cashew interprofessional association of Senegal, “this project aims to reach two hundred thousand tonnes of production by 2035, or sixty billion francs in terms of turnover”.
« The government has set many milestones to support the cashew sector and this has enabled an increase in exports of fifty-five thousand tonnes in 2017 compared to ninety-six thousand tonnes in 2022 at the port of Ziguinchor », a- he revealed Boubacar Konta on the occasion of the ceremony of handing over materials to the actors of the cashew sector.
Modou Gueye, Governor in charge of Administrative Affairs, urged beneficiaries to make “good use” of it.
»The material made available to the various actors in the cashew sector in the three regions of Casamance must be used more in the implementation of the State’s public policies in the economic field. The work must be done collectively to manage the maximum number of professional players in this sector,” he said.
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