Multipurpose co-operative of Somankidi
The multipurpose co-operative of Somankidi Coura (" Coura" mean new in Soninké) is located on the river Senegal at about fifteen kilometers downstream from the town of Kayes.
Created in the middle of the years 1970, it produces especially Bananes but also of onions, tomatos, cabbages, gombo and papaws conveyed in Kayes by dugout with engine or in the car. It became the president of the whole of the irrigated perimeters of the basin of Senegal.
She was founded by about fifteen workers Mali ens expatriates in the Sixties in France. They work then for some in factories Renault of the Paris region. Militants anticolonialists, they support the rebellion of Amilcar Cabral which fights for the independence of the Guinea Bissau and the other liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies. They make collections of clothes and blood donations and organize events such as film projections militants within Cuturelle Association of the African Workers in France (ACTAF). Following the dryness and with the famine which touches the Sahel in 1973, they decide to turn over in the area to found an agricultural cooperative. They obtain each one a training course in Champagne farms, decide to share their resources to found the co-operative and find in Mali the ground that they always occupy since 1976.
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