Fast production for official trials in EU
- The production of sunflower hybrids sawn in October permits to send back the seeds before end of January
Why in Senegal and Casamance?
- 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.
- Crop management "à la carte" :
- Define by our customers taking into account the varieties specifications, densities, dates of planting.
