Jean-Francois Berthoumieu of Agralis Services recently had the unique opportunity to meet with the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Agralis Services are the distributor of Sentek products throughout France and also into Morocco and Algeria. Based in the South-West of France, Agralis Services offer specialist expertise in the areas of irrigation, water resources, soils, climatic risks and meteorololgy (www.agralis.fr).

On the 21st May, President Sarkozy visited farmers in Lot-et-Garonne, the district where Agralis Services are based, to discuss initiatives to reduce labour costs, agreements with supermarkets to investigate price variations, and other ways in which he is trying to help.

Jean-Francois Berthoumieu in his short meeting with President Sarkozy, was able to introduce principles of water ecology and resource management that are applicable to the area, and very briefly introduce Sentek's capacitance technology.

It is a measure of the high level of respect held for Jean-Francois Berthoumieu that he was invited to present to the upper echelons of government and Sentek is proud to have this calibre of distributor representing us in France.