AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER

The Sérédou agronomic center is one of the six branches of the Institut de recherche agronomique de Guinée (IRAG), and is the heir to the Sérédou experimental station, which was created by the French in the 1930s and became a cinchona station in 1939 for the extraction of quinine. It is now specialized in tropical agroforestry production systems, with a particular focus on coffee, rubber, oil palm and kola. Its manager, Mr. Mory, will open the doors of his research center and will explain with passion the work and research conducted by his teams. Very instructive! He works in particular to make better known the Ziama coffee, robusta coffee with organoleptic characteristics of the arabica, and will be pleased, without any doubt, to make you taste it! He will also be able to show you the 7 hectares of the Roland Portères botanical garden, rehabilitated since 2020 and currently managed by the Sérédou center. More than 450 plant species, some of which are classified as "vulnerable" (VU) according to the red list of endangered species, have been identified there and you can discover them by walking along the botanical path decorated with numerous informative plaques. Of note: an exceptional collection of orchids grouped under a shade created especially to house the 452 live samples collected in the various forests of Guinea and neighboring Liberia.