Senegal's Minister of Industry and Commerce, Serigne Guéye Diop, has begun construction of a cold storage warehouse in Ngomène, Thiès region. The facility, designed to store onions and potatoes, will have an initial capacity of 250,000 metric tons, expandable to one million tons in the long term. New Ngomène facility aims to reduce waste, stabilize prices and support rising horticulture output. Serigne Gueye Diop, Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Alioune Dione, Minister. The Project is expected to have a positive development impact in Senegal by increasing the availability of temperature-controlled cold chain storage for food and pharmaceutical products.