In Meyo Kye and Eboro, two localities bordering Cameroon, a food product transfer dock and a standing cattle processing area will be built. The construction work, which is expected to last one month, is the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture as part of a project to guarantee food and health security in the country.
On a mission in the province of Woleu-Ntem, from April 24 to 26, the Minister of Agriculture went to finalize the implementation of the project to build a device to prevent zoonotic and phytosanitary risks in Eboro and Meyo Kye. The works to be carried out by military engineers, with the contracting authority of the Gabonese Food Security Agency AGASA, should start this week for a period of one month.
This involves the construction of a food product transfer dock in Eboro and a live cattle processing area in Meyo Kye. It will be used for the storage of animal products with the key, the construction of a slaughterhouse to lay the oxen from Cameroon. According to the Minister of Agriculture, the quay and the area will strengthen respect for health measures taken to curb the spread of Covid-19, but also improve the quality of food admitted to Gabon, organize their processing and their packaging while by making their flow more fluid.
The objective, according to Biendi Maganga Moussavou, is to respect two fundamental principles of the government: ensuring health security in Eboro by preventing the border closure measure from being violated. But above all, ensure the fluidity of trade between Gabon and Cameroon. “The Eboro border crossing is of strategic importance to us in this regard, as is the Meyo Kye border crossing. The border post of Eboro will be intended to reinforce the infrastructures in terms of management of food products while that of Meyo Kye will be devoted to all the animal part “, he specified.
This project, he said, integrates the strategic plan of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food which will be “unveiled soon and which aims to guarantee health and food security for all, by reducing imports outside CEMAC and by promoting Gabonese production and exports in competitive sectors.
