SECOND SEDHIOU

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The Second Sedhiou Project for Senegal will encourage farmers in the Sedhiou district of Casamance to adopt improved crop and livestock production techniques by supplying them with inputs, credit and technical assistance. The project will carry the 4,150 farm families already participating in the first project to higher levels of technology and induce 3,250 farm families now using traditional farming methods to adopt the improved cropping techniques which have proved effective under the first project. In addition the project will encourage 4,800 families from both groups to take up better livestock practices. It will also help strengthen cooperatives by management training and by promoting the organization of cooperative unions. The project will benefit about 7,400 farm families (80,000 people in all), representing about 40 percent of the rural population of the district.