The Ministry of Agriculture in Gabon has just launched the “Gabon Famille Verte” program. In this period of confinement, this initiative aims at the emergence of “green families”, through the practice of market gardening and small home farms.
In this confinement period, it is possible to take care of the family by practicing the land. This is in any case the idea of the Minister of Agriculture who has just launched the “Gabon Famille Verte” program, intended to encourage families to practice market gardening and gardening.
Market gardening is the cultivation of plants for food use, in a professional manner, that is to say in order to make a profit or simply to make a living from it. What distinguishes it from gardening, which is the practice and, sometimes, the art of sowing, planting, maintaining plants composing a garden in conditions ideal for their development.
“Those interested will be able to register online and benefit from a seed endowment,” the Minister of Agriculture said. “A television program broadcast on the online will serve as a tutorial for remote monitoring of green families,” Biendi Maganga Moussavou added.
This program is part of a system intended to support the agricultural sector in this period of Coronavirus crisis. “Above all, we are at the disposal of our operators (farmers, breeders, fishermen, processors, etc.) whose activity, in the current context of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, is a source of a very great concern. We are available to assist them in these unique moments when only solidarity, sharing of ideas and inventiveness and above all good will must animate us, “the Minister of Agriculture told the press.
However, in the context of the current containment, when the market gardeners will join their operations to implement the Minister’s program. Except perhaps for those who have a piece of land to cultivate in their concessions.
