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Hundreds of tons of crops are lost every year in Senegal. Now, a simple, green solution from a young entrepreneur could change that, and boost food security.
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00:00Oh
00:05Young founder
00:08DeMarie Aydang
00:10One knew there had to be a better way
00:12A way to help farmers
00:13Her solution
00:15These simple huts
00:16That are cooler than the outside temperature
00:18By up to 10
00:20Degrees Celcius
00:21I don't understand
00:25This storage facility
00:26Has a capacity of 120 tonnes
00:28More than 2
00:30Thousand bags are stored here
00:31During the harvest season
00:32Potatoes can be stored
00:34For up to
00:3430
00:35Degrees Celcius
00:35For three or even four months
00:36The heart keeps on
00:40Of the sun
00:40And above all the heat
00:41Potatoes and onions
00:43Grow in abundance
00:44In Senegal
00:4580% of the country's fruit and
00:50Vegetables are grown
00:51In the Niayes region
00:52The fertile area between
00:54Dakar and St. Louis
00:55In 2025
00:59The onion
00:59Half
01:00Our vessels
01:00Actually up 10%
01:01Of the previous year
01:02A record crop
01:04The potential
01:05Yield was good too
01:06But the market
01:07Was soon saturated
01:08A problem that
01:10Threatens the livelihood
01:10Of farmers
01:11Like serving in law
01:15In the past
01:17We couldn't eat
01:18Always fine pies
01:19After the harvest
01:20Or sometimes
01:21The price was too low
01:22But we couldn't wait
01:23We had nowhere
01:24To store the price
01:25And produce
01:25And if we left it
01:26Lying in the sun
01:27It will spoil
01:30Because you do it
01:30Because you dance
01:31When building
01:32Ingenieur Ibrahim Adiyanye
01:34Is very peaceful
01:35Size
01:35When the bubble
01:36Floats in the middle
01:37The structure
01:38Is perfectly vertical
01:40The design is simple
01:42But needs to be well built
01:43As it will have to stand
01:44For years
01:45The Sabon Junior
01:46Has now built
01:47Seven of these huts
01:48In various places
01:49In Senegal
01:50At the construction site
01:52He shows us
01:53How careful work
01:53Can produce a warehouse
01:55From waste
01:55From waste
01:55The hut's basic structure
01:59Consists
02:00Mainly of discarded trash
02:01Old kaya tires
02:03Saks
02:04And
02:05Plastic bottles
02:05That would otherwise
02:06End up in the garbage
02:10Every time we have a tire
02:13In place
02:13We fill it with sun
02:14Before
02:15For compacting it
02:15The tamper makes the sand
02:18Inside more stable
02:19After
02:20For the first few rows
02:21We then use the socks
02:22And bow tools
02:25Recycling waste
02:27As a building material
02:28Is key to the project
02:30It means
02:31There is less waste
02:32To police
02:32Environment
02:32And
02:33The huts
02:34Are affordable
02:34For everyone
02:35Farmers can boost
02:36Their earnings
02:37And
02:37Food security
02:38West
02:39Becomes a
02:40Solution
02:40That opens up
02:41New prospects
02:41For the future
02:45所 chuckle
02:47And
02:47Waters
02:52We
02:53The
02:55dank
03:11We
03:13We
03:14We
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