Agriclture Project for Naatal Mbay in Senegal

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Agriclture Project for Naatal Mbay in Senegal
Agriclture Project for Naatal Mbay in Senegal

RICHARD TOLL - SENEGAL: A man shows full rice after being selecter with an artisanal rice mill at GIE Yoonu Toll company on September 19 2017 in Richard Toll town, Senegal. Photo by Xaume Olleros / RTI

STORY

*** Madièye Yague and Fatou Thiam met on the edges of the town of Richard Toll in northern Senegal in 2008. At the time, Madièye was making market gardening and rice growing, and Fatou was active in the area. trade in rice and vegetables. Two years later, they decide to unite for life. Madièye remains in its line at the moment Mr. YAGUE is oriented in the processing of rice, one of the main activities of the zone. It created in 2010, "Enterprise Fatou Thiam" which limited its activities to services by producing cargo rice for a trader established in Dakar. In the absence of an efficient huller, it was women recruited to the task who ensured the pre-cleaning of the paddy upstream and downstream the cleaning of the rice by manual methods of sieving and winnowing, which was laborious to of orders roughly 5 tons of rice. After successful tests, the partner increases his order up to 10 tons with, as a bonus, a contract for the acquisition of an artisanal sorter. However, a break in the partnership contract abruptly between the two sides broke this momentum.
The partner carries part of the production equipment and the computer containing all the company's data; which greatly slowed down the company's activities, leading it to bankruptcy in 2014. Faced with this situation, Mr. Yague decided to fly to the rescue of Madame. They merge their activities: the husband takes the lead of the Company to relieve his wife who is in charge of the marketing of white rice.
It is in this context that the company was copied by the Economic Growth Project which equips it with equipment to test the quality of the paddy and the partnership continued with Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay. Project support begins with the establishment of a network of producers, the recruitment and

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