My company based in Paris France is currently in partnership with local associations of gum producers both in Senegal and in Burkina Faso. My goal is to facilitate a direct contact between the local producers and the international buyers. In fact ***** is dedicated to selling gum karaya and gum arabic on behalf of the real collectors and producers of gums in order to increase significantly the both the quality of the products and the income of the local residents. In order to be effective and performant we do only sell gum arabic and karaya. We are establishing steady and reliable relationships with our buyer partners. Our local producers partner association in Senegal is regrouping more that 200 producers of gum in the eastern region of the country. In Burkina Faso we just started our implementation. We expect to be working with the same number of producers by the end of december 2009. Being a seasonal activity we recommand our potential buyers to contact us in early september for the rainy season (september to december) and in early january for the dry season (february to may).