On May 7, the pilot Sokone Cashew Processing Unit of the BioStar project received its new BioStar equipment. The inauguration ceremony was attended by key regional and national development actors.
On May 7, the official BioStar equipment handover ceremony took place in Sokone, Senegal, within the pilot SME UTAS (Sokone Cashew Processing Unit).
Results of a collaborative design approach between researchers from Gaston Berger University, the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research, CIRAD, Senegalese equipment manufacturers and the SME UTAS, two cashew nut embrittlement boilers, supplied with heat from the combustion of cashew nut shells and solar energy, were thus able to be presented during the ceremony.
Placed under the patronage of the first deputy mayor of the city of Sokone, this event was co-organized by the Interprofession Cajou du Senegal (ICAS), the SME UTAS and members of the BioStar collective. It brought together the women of the company, representatives of the GIE of women cashew processors and cooperatives in the region.
Important players in regional and national development (Dynamics for a Local Agroecological Transition – DyTAEL / Emergency Community Development Program (PUDC Senegal) were also present for the occasion, alongside processing industrialists such as the company EOSEN of Sokone.