As part of efforts aimed at boosting food production and improving agriculture, the Senegalese government has ordered the removal of fixed electricity charges for rice producers. With this development, rice producers will soon no longer pay fixed charges to Senelec, the national electricity company. Macky Sall, the President of the Republic has indeed instructed his ministers of Agriculture and Energy to take measures to ensure that this charge is removed.

In Senegal, the President of the Republic, Macky Sall has instructed his ministers to abolish the fixed premium paid by agricultural producers to Senelec, the national electricity company.

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“The Head of State asked the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Finance and Budget to ensure the abolition of the fixed premium on electricity, from pumping stations and rice fields, and to the exemption from non-recoverable VAT on inputs for the rice sector industry ”, we learned in the Council of Ministers press release.

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The abolition of these premiums is a complaint introduced some time ago by rice producers in the Senegal River valley, whose motor pumps run on electricity. “What we can remember is that everyone has complained about the burden of the fixed premium to be paid regularly to Senelec by producers, even if the latter do not go into the countryside” , had confided last June , Mouhamadou Moctar, the governor of the region of Matam during a tour of the plantations.

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