Press releases - 2026 April 24
President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye inaugurated this afternoon the Kolda Agro-Industrial Park, an infrastructure set to play a major role in the economic transformation of southern Senegal and, beyond that, in the country’s new productive architecture.
Located in the municipality of Dioulacolon on a 15-hectare site, including 5 hectares already developed, the park is part of the South Agropole Project, being implemented across the regions of Ziguinchor, Kolda and Sédhiou. Carried out under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, it is financed to the tune of 2.32 billion CFA francs by the Islamic Development Bank.
The site includes a logistics zone with loading and unloading docks, a mechanical workshop, a weighbridge, a 3,600-ton storage warehouse and a 220-ton cold room. It also features a business area developed over 2 expandable hectares to host private processing units and SMEs, a technical block with a 70 m³-per-hour borehole and a 150 m³ water tower, as well as an administrative area dedicated to management and services.
But the significance of this inauguration goes far beyond the commissioning of a single facility. Through the Agropoles initiative, Senegal is establishing integrated infrastructure across its eight territorial poles to make agricultural and agri-food value chains more competitive, more resilient and more value-creating. In the southern pole alone, nine agro-industrial parks are under development. Across the South Agropole Project, nearly 14,500 direct jobs and 35,000 indirect jobs are expected.
What is at stake here is therefore essential. It is no longer simply about producing more, but about storing better, processing better, marketing better and attracting investment closer to production basins. It is about ensuring that the wealth generated by territories creates greater value locally, more jobs and stronger prospects for young people, women, producers and entrepreneurs.
In Kolda, the President of the Republic is thus giving concrete expression to an ambition that goes beyond the economic sphere alone: building, in every region, strong productive foundations capable of supporting food sovereignty, strengthening the industrial fabric and durably correcting territorial imbalances. This is how a stronger, more balanced Senegal, master of its own destiny, is being built.
