Richard-Toll

Senegal

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Richard-Toll is a town in northwestern Senegal, situated about 50 miles northeast of Dakar. It is known as the "Garden of Richard" and was named after a 19th-century French nursery gardener. The town is located on the S\u00e9n\u00e9gal River, which forms the border with Mauritania. This area experiences a gentle land slope, allowing seawater to flow upstream during low water periods. Richard-Toll is also near where Senegal's primary mineral exports, phosphates, are quarried.12

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Sénégal River
Agriculture and irrigation
At Richard-Toll a large area is irrigated by means of a dam across the Taoué (Taouey), a tributary stream up which Sénégal floods penetrate to Lake Guier. Rice and sugarcane have been grown there by the use of mechanized equipment and paid labour, although rice yields…
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At Richard-Toll a large area is irrigated by means of a dam across the Taoué (Taouey), a tributary stream up which Sénégal floods penetrate to Lake Guier. Rice and sugarcane have been grown there by the use of mechanized equipment and paid labour, although rice yields…
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