AA / Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
President Macky Sall called for a general mobilization for the promotion of local food products in order to better contain the price shocks caused by the war in Ukraine.
The Senegalese president addressed his fellow citizens during the traditional address to the nation on the eve of the country’s Independence Day, April 4.
“Considering the high risk of shortages and soaring prices due to the global crisis, I call for a general mobilization to increase and further enhance our agricultural, livestock and fishing products”, urged the head of the State.
“To be sheltered from the vagaries of the international situation, we must, through an individual and collective effort on ourselves, show resilience by winning the battle for food sovereignty as quickly as possible”, he said. indicated.
“I urge the vital forces of the nation, in particular young people, women and the private sector, to invest more in the value chains of livestock, fishing and agriculture”, insisted President Macky Sall.
Sall noted that independence is not an isolated act of a day, but a permanent fight, which is also won on the food security front.
“This is what adds to national sovereignty an additional freedom,” he said, noting the need for people to produce what they consume and consume what they produce.
“This is the meaning of the massive investments that the State continues to devote to the modernization and diversification of the livestock, fishing and agricultural sectors”, he insisted.
He recalled that the increase in subsidies for the agricultural campaign and the local rice sector are part of this perspective.
This year’s Independence Day is themed “Defence and Security Forces and Resilience”.
The celebration of this 62nd year of independence will revolve around a ceremony of taking up arms presided over by the Head of State.
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