Senegal : Winter Nursery

Optimization of breeding programmes

Fast production for official trials in EU

Why in Senegal?

• Many flight each days from France - only 6 hours flight
• Climate conditions permit to have two generation of production during winter season
• Low pressure of diseases
• Irrigation by hand

Isolation distances and crop management:

• Isolations are very good as each isolation is done with one village. The village are distants one from the others with many kilometers. That permits a very good protection against cross polinisation and there they are no maize or sunflower grown during this period.
• Exceptional climat conditions:
• Rainfall 1 200 mm per year during summer time fulfilling buried acquifers
• First sawing period end of August after the rain permits early harvest to have in time the seed for EU official trials, officiels françaises et européennes.
• Crop management "à la carte" :
• Define by our customers taking into account the varieties specifications, densities, dates of planting,