Madar (Dakar) - Senegal's government on Thursday, 22 October 2026 adopted about 20 measures to ensure the smooth running of the 2026-27 crop marketing campaign, at an interministerial council chaired by Prime Minister Ahmadou Alhaminou Lo, who put the campaign's financing needs at "a little over 200bn CFA francs", the Senegalese news agency APS reported.
The measures listed by deputy secretary-general of the government Lamine Sarr include paying 44bn CFA francs in arrears owed to suppliers of farm inputs, drawing up an operational financing plan for each value chain, and setting up a committee to make recommendations on the groundnut producer price.
The authorities also plan to step up surveillance of production areas and borders to better control the groundnut trade, in cooperation with neighbouring countries, and to gradually digitalise groundnut marketing.
For rice, the government plans a "sustainable equalisation mechanism" to help sell domestic output and pay growers a subsidy of 50 CFA francs per kilo. Horticultural imports will be regulated according to domestic production. A strategy has yet to be set for selling 70,450 tonnes of groundnuts stored at the plants of state oilseed company SONACOS.
SONACOS director-general Cheikh Ahmeth Tidiane Gueye said the company needs 100bn CFA francs to buy 250,000 tonnes of groundnuts in the coming months, that about 75% of the funding is almost secured, and that a further 25bn is still being sought from its partner banks.
The prime minister urged officials to avoid breaks in financing, storage shortfalls and "persistent delays" in paying farmers and traders, saying that "if production is the foundation of the farming season, marketing guarantees its sustainability".
