Processing Equipment for Senegal's Groundnut, Tomato, Rice and Fish Sectors

Senegal is part of a climatic zone of weak and random rainfall, and its raw materials reflect that. Groundnut products feature among the country's agricultural exports, and much of that trade has been in groundnut oil. Senegal has also had a national groundnut-processing factory, so crushing and refining nuts into oil is an established processing step for oil mills and cooperatives to consider.

Horticultural exports are concentrated on a few products, namely green beans, tomatoes, mangoes and watermelon, so tomato and mango supply is relevant to paste, powder, pulp and juice processing. Rice is grown in Senegal, with harvesting of the rice crop reported each year, and parboiling, the partial boiling of rice in the husk before milling, protects the grain from breaking. Fish products are also part of the export base, and fish by-products are suited to oil and meal recovery.

Possible users include oil mills, tomato and fruit processors, rice mills, fish processors and cooperatives. Because rainfall is weak and random, drying capacity and storage deserve early attention in any plant design, and fish by-product recovery is usually sited close to the landing sites that supply it.