This Thursday, November 14, 2024, Mabouba Diagne announced that he had found a consensus with the various players in the peanut industry and financial partners to meet the challenges of a good 2024-2025 marketing campaign.
« Today we brought together everyone, all the stakeholders with the aim of finding a consensus on the preparation of the peanut marketing campaign. Yes, we found compromises. This means that together we can meet the challenges“, rejoiced the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Livestock, at the end of a meeting with these actors, in the premises of the ministry located in Diamniadio.
Officials, financial partners, industrialists, economic operators, representatives of producer organizations, exporters as well as seed companies, according to the APS, took part in the meeting whose objective was to harmonize positions as a prelude to the interministerial council on the peanut marketing campaign, scheduled for Tuesday in Dakar.
According to the minister, “ everything we have to do must take into account the interests of producers. Exporters, oil growers, banks and operators have agreed to do everything to meet seed needs, which are around 500,000 tonnes.« .
The participants in the meeting, underline our colleagues, also agreed with him to draw up a list “ well defined » of exporters in order to also take into account the needs of oil production factories.
« These exporters will help oil factories have the necessary peanut seeds and shells that will allow them to operate all year round. It is after this that we will open up to exports“, adds the Minister of Agriculture who, at the same time, announced that his ministry will soon organize a day of reflection with all the stakeholders to define the ” national seed self-sufficiency strategy« .
He also insisted on the professionalization of actors in the peanut sector which “ is one of the transparency criteria required by banks so that they can access financing« .
Mabouba Diagne also announced that he had relaunched the banking system by encouraging it to help finance the 2024-2025 peanut marketing campaign. He specifies that in Senegal, we have around thirty banks. And that “ if each contributes ten billion CFA francs, that gives 300 billion CFA francs. An amount that can finance the peanut marketing campaign« .
