The director of Songhai Center was in Toulouse (France) where he took part in a colloquium on «Rameal Chipped Wood » from 16^th to 18^th June 2010. This meeting helped the participants grasp the importance of the RCW in agriculture being practiced in Canada a long time ago before it began to become popular recently in France. It is a farming method which consists in chopping fresh tree branches (into pieces of less than 7 cm of diameter) and leaving them on the soil to improve its fertility or help it regenerate entirely.  

Six new Songhaï centres will be established in some agro-ecological zones of Benin where the centre had not been existing. Since 12^th August it became just a question of months. Indeed, it was on that date that the documents on the project « Promotion of Agricultural Entrepreneurship for the socio-economic Development of the Rural Zones in Benin » were signed between the Benin Government (represented by the State Minister in charge of Development and the Evaluation of Public Action), Songhai centre and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).