On 13 May 2024, Ms. Pottanee Homjitt, Chargé d'affaires a.i., together with Ms. Papada Pakdethanakul, Second Secretary, and staff of the Royal Thai Embassy in Dakar, visited the aquaculture stations in Richard Toll, northern Senegal, to inspect the current condition of the Tilapia hatchery basins built with the financial support from Thailand under the Aquaculture Cooperation between Thailand and Senegal.

The Thai-Senegalese Aquaculture Cooperation is a development cooperation between the Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, the Royal Thai Embassy in Dakar, Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University, and the National Agency for Aquaculture (ANA) of Senegal. The main objective is to share Thailand’s experiences and best practices with Senegal. In 2010, under the project of establishing Tilapia breeding facility in Senegal, the Thai side supported the construction of 10 tilapia hatchery basins and sent a team of Thai experts to help establish an aquaculture station at Richard Toll. Currently, both sides are carrying on the project to create continuous and sustainable benefits which will further support food security for the people of Senegal.

On this occasion, Chargé d'affaires a.i. met with Mr. Théofile Diouf, Head of ANA North Zone, Ms. Ouleymata Gaye, Aquaculture Engineer, and other ANA personnel, to discuss ways to renovate the hatchery basins to ensure that the aquaculture station in Richard Toll can operate at full capacity in order to produce enough fish fingerlings to distribute to local farmers for hatching, breeding and selling, and become a significant source of food supply for the local population. Furthermore, both sides discussed the possibility of knowledge sharing from Thailand on producing floating fish feed which was requested by the Senegalese side.