The Activities Of Mame Cheikh Ibrahima Fall

 

*The activities of Mame Cheikh Ibrahima Fall*

 *- Market gardening:* Sheikh Ibrahima Fall practiced market gardening in Tassinere Gandiol and supplied the entire city of Saint-Louis with vegetables and fruits.  His crops brought him at least fifty thousand francs (50,000) per year at the time and increased each year.

 *Agriculture:* He diversified crops because he considered the practice of a single crop, that of peanuts, to be insufficient in terms of financial income.  He cultivated millet, corn, sorghum and others.  Reason why its stores were always stocked.

 *Trade:* He had around fifty shops run by his disciples

 *Couture:* He trained some of his disciples in sewing in the city of Saint Louis and set up numerous sewing workshops in the city

 *Land owner:* He acquired land in the capital of the time and almost everywhere in Senegal.  He also owned land in Guéoul, Ndande, Kebemer, Thies, Diourbel.  Each of his properties was the subject of a title deed (land title) drawn up by a notary.

 *Fishing:* He bought canoes for fishing

 *His strategy:* He had a perfect mastery of the cartography of Senegal which allowed him to establish a perfect and intelligent occupation of the territory by the establishment of _daaras tarbiya_, which were real training schools for accomplished disciples,  but also through the development of economic activities (agriculture, horticulture, fishing, commerce, etc.) according to the potential of each locality.

 *Source:* Life and Teachings of Sheikh Ibrahima Fall Baboul Mouridîna

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