Sénégal-Turquie : Une usine de tracteurs pour révolutionner l’agriculture
During Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko's official visit to Turkey from August 7 to 11, a strategic memorandum of understanding was signed with the Turkish Albayrak Group to establish a tractor assembly plant in Senegal. This initiative, concluded in the presence of Sonko and Senegalese ministers (Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Livestock, Industry and Trade), as well as Albayrak's leaders—Ahmet Albayrak (President), Nuri Albayrak (Vice President), and Yunus Yılmaz (President of Foreign Investment)—aims to modernize agriculture in West Africa and promote food self-sufficiency.
Faced with food dependence accentuated by the Russia-Ukraine war, Senegal has prioritized agriculture as a strategic sector. The plant, which will serve the West African region, will include assembly, maintenance, spare parts, and after-sales services, as well as a vocational agricultural training school, under the supervision of the relevant ministries. This project is part of Vision Senegal 2050, which seeks to diversify alliances and attract investment.
Albayrak, already active in ports (Somalia, Guinea, Gambia, Congo, Equatorial Guinea), construction and waste management, is strengthening its agricultural portfolio through its subsidiaries TÜMOSAN (388th in the ISO 500 ranking) and Sukkar. After projects in Guinea, the group plans expansion in Gambia, Sierra Leone, Congo and Somalia, in partnership with the African Development Bank, to address food security challenges.
This visit, which included the Senegal-Turkey Economic Forum in Istanbul and meetings with 20 Turkish companies, follows that of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye in November 2024. After a recent trip to China, Sonko explored projects in defense, energy, finance, and infrastructure, favoring public-private or Build-Operate-Transfer models, thus strengthening economic ties between the two nations.
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Par ailleurs on affaiblit nos entrepreneurs. Mais on enrichit ceux de la Turquie . Les notres en prison sont ils moins honnêtes que ceux avec lesquels vous signez en Turquie.
Il faut mettre le secteur privée national en avant. Mettre en place les conditions pour leur financement. Il faut miser sur eux, risquer … c’est ce que font les pays développés.
Mais beug mou sotti rek nga dem bouroukhlou…
Lies in the morning, lies in the afternoon, lies in the evening and finally lies at night 🌙 even during your sleep.
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