Oilseeds & Edible oil

The initiative focuses on rehabilitating traditional oil palm plantations, establishing modern refining capacity, and enhancing local value addition to meet surging national and regional demand for edible oils.

The project is expected to help Senegal reduce dependence on imported refined oils, improve oil extraction rates through shorter post harvest intervals, and create a more competitive value chain for smallholder growers.

The project aims to accelerate commercialization of key oilseed value chains while improving the livelihoods and resilience of smallholder farmers.

The government has renewed its focus on Ghana’s oil palm industry, with the planned expansion forming part of efforts to increase farm output and strengthen local processing.

The surge reflects Senegal’s policy shift toward favouring local processing of groundnuts, which has coincided with a sharp decline in raw peanut exports as more of the crop is crushed domestically into oil.