Senegal, a starving country with a self-sufficiency rate of less than 20 percent. Senegal’s agriculture has always faced many problems such as it’s land turning into wastelands, and the moving of young people from the rural areas. In 2014, President Macky Sall started promoting mechanization of farming and waterways, and introduced new technologies for crop cultivation, successfully increasing the grain production by three times in 2018.
“Development starts when we produce what we eat, and when we eat what we produce.”, says a local farmer in Saint-Louis region in Senegal.
