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The company is still growing and is not short of perspectives or projects. Its challenges for the future are to establish new headquarters to improve working conditions of the personnel and to be able to better receive clients, establish an industrial slaughter chain together with local farmers and adjust plots of industrial corn farming.
A real impact on the local and regional rural development Senegal, a partner country of the Belgian development cooperation, faces industrial challenges like other countries in the region. The country is in need of a strong private sector. Behind this strong private sector there are people who have the courage to invest in sectors that target and support local added value in production terms and that create jobs. With a contribution of 17% to the gross interior product of poultry farming, a turn-over for the poultry industry of over 132 billion FCFA in 2012, more than 30,000 direct and indirect jobs and a growth of almost 80% between 2000 and 2012, the Senegalese poultry sector is one of the most promising agribusinesses to support poverty reduction and economic growth in Senegal. The main part of SEDIMA’s production is destined for the interior market, but SEDIMA also exports a part of its production, mainly to Mauritania, Gambia and Mali, and is looking for market access in Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry. Through its activities and services aimed at local poultry farmers, its creation of local added value, and creation of direct
BIO annual report 2013