FERKSSDOUGOU

town, northern Cte d'Ivoire. It lies on the road and railroad from Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) to Abidjan. A trade centre (rice, millet, corn , yams, and cotton) among the Senufo and Dyula farmers of the savanna, it is the site of an agricultural research station and a rice factory. A major sugar factory was established there in 1974. The town is also an important railroad centre. The Muslim Dyula people, whose chief mosque in the town is built in the Sudanese style, raise cattle and other livestock in the locality. Pop. (1975) 25,307; (1988) 35,155.