Wageningen is located about 50 km south-east of Nieuw Nickerie

Wageningen was founded by the "Stichting Machinale Landbouw" (Foundation for Mechanical Agriculture) in 1949.
It was the realization of a plan by Professor Eysvogel to practice agriculture on a large mechanical scale in the coastal area of western Suriname.
The village was given the name Wageningen, because the engineers who made the plan and who would execute it for the greatest part came from the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands.

Overview of Wageningen in the early stages

Rice silo at Wageningen

Monument in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the abolition of slavery

Hotel "De Wereld", named after the hotel in Wageningen (The Netherlands),
where the capitulation of the Germans in World War II was ratified

Monument in commemoration of Wageningen's 25th anniversary

In the eighties Wageningen rapidly went backwards.
At the turn of the century it even came to a standstill.
In 2004 it was reanimated.
As a result of this, The Stichting Machinale Landbouw
was succeeded by Suriname Rice Operation (SRO).

The remains of the hospital of Wageningen

The growing of banana for export was introduced in Nickerie in 1960.
The Juliana polder and the Nickerie II polder have an area of more than 1,000 ha that has been planted with bananas.
The planting, fertilizing, maintenance, harvesting and packaging are done according to the most modern methods.

Surland Nickerie Operations (Juliana polder)

Banana trees along the road at Longmay;
these bananas are meant for the domestic market