Agricultural tour in Linguère: Cheikh Oumar Bâ meeting bean producers September 28, 2026

Visiting the department of Linguère as part of the agricultural campaign monitoring tour, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Sovereignty, Cheikh Oumar Bâ, visited, this Sunday, September 20, 2026, the 300 hectares of beans (cowpea) exploited by the cooperative of Madame Fatou Sarr, in the locality of Diéry Birane.

Spokesperson for her cooperative, called “Djolof Cowpea Production Platform” (PPND), Fatou Sarr took the opportunity to explain to the minister the urgent needs of her producers. She pleaded for the restoration of depleted soils, the provision of organic fertilizers, as well as the provision of seeders, heavy equipment, like the “Allô Tracteurs”, and harvesting and processing equipment.

“We need seeders, heavy equipment and harvesting equipment. The harvests are often very difficult. We want tools that accompany us from harvest to processing,” she said. She also insisted on the effective application of the agropastoral law, which, according to her, is the only way to put an end to the recurring conflicts between breeders and farmers in the area. “We are satisfied with the minister’s visit, but we ask the State to implement the agropastoral law to definitively resolve the conflicts between breeders and farmers,” she added.

While touring the farm, Cheikh Oumar Bâ expressed his satisfaction with the cooperative’s commitment. He recalled that this success of Fatou Sarr, also a major cowpea producer, is the result of a collaboration with the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (Isra), which provides technical support.

The minister took the opportunity to emphasize the need to guarantee seed sovereignty, a prerequisite, according to him, to any sustainable food sovereignty. “There cannot be food sovereignty without going through seed sovereignty,” he declared. In this perspective, he announced the strengthening of agricultural cooperatives in order to provide producers with quality seeds.

Hailing in passing the dynamism of Madame Sarr, capable of having mobilized her cooperative to develop hundreds of hectares of cowpea, the minister was keen to congratulate her: “She is the pride of her compatriots,” he declared, before promising to strengthen the cowpea value chain in the Louga region, the leading national producer of this crop, expected to remain at the heart of the government’s efforts to consolidate the sector and develop its processing.