To enable it to pursue its actions, in particular with a view to reducing food imports by 50% by 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture is counting on a forecast budget of more than 20 billion CFA francs in 2021. Gabon’s sovereignty also depends on food self-sufficiency. At the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, we expect to achieve this.
Last October, taking stock of the 31st Regional Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Biendi Maganga-Moussavou announced that, in accordance with the Emerging Gabon Strategic Program (PSGE), the country has been working for some time to reduce imports by 50% by 2022. These would represent nearly a billion dollars each year.
Also, to allow him to continue his actions aimed at achieving this objective, the member of the government appeared on Tuesday, December 15 before the senators, members of the Finance Committee, to submit to them the estimated budget of the department, including he is in charge. In 2021, Biendi Maganga-Moussavou hopes to obtain a global envelope of 20.694 billion FCFA, in accordance with the initial budget bill adopted by the Council of Ministers on October 13.
This money, he told senators, will be used to reduce food imports and develop an agri-food industry at the national level. This will specifically finance the program for the establishment of agricultural areas across the country and the activities of fishing centers, the effective launch of which would soon be in several localities.
