The Commercial Agriculture Development Support Project (Pdac) signed partnership agreements with four public structures on November 17 in Brazzaville that are helping to achieve its objectives. The overall amount of financial assistance amounts to 390,500,000 FCFA.
This is the National School of Agronomy and Forestry (ENSAF). In fact, the agreement signed between the coordinator of Pdac, Isidore Ondoki and the director of this establishment Parisse Akouango, is 271,500,000 FCFA. This sum will be used, among other things, for the acquisition of research equipment and the organization of agricultural education, to support doctoral and master’s research work and training courses in impregnation. The acquisition of farm school inputs is also part of the planned activities.
The fifty-nine million FCFA granted to the vocational agricultural school of Amilcar Cabral, represented by its principal, Alain Riches Gouemba, will be dedicated to the acquisition of a tractor with accessories, to the updating of teaching programs. agricultural.
With the technical agricultural high school of Ouesso, also represented by its principal Emile Félix Koto, it was an agreement of 40,000,000 FCFA to be used for the purchase of tillers and tillage kits, for the rehabilitation of the water tower. , updating programs and equipping the library with specialist works.
Finally, the 20,000,000 FCFA allocated to the Center for the Popularization of Livestock Techniques will be used for the acquisition of a breeder of livestock feed and the training of pig and poultry breeders benefiting from shared-cost funds.
“During the preparation of the PDAC, the Congo and the World Bank had agreed, among other things, to support research, vocational and higher agricultural training. These beneficiary structures have been identified and retained “, recalled the chief of staff of the Minister of Agriculture, Michel Elenga, adding that” thanks to the implementation of the said project, the agro-pastoral and fishery actors of all the districts have today ‘ he benefited from significant financial support. This allows them, in these times of the covid-19 pandemic, to strengthen their activities. “
Co-financed by the Congo and the World Bank to the tune of FCFA 60 billion, the Pdac has been in operation since April 2018. Building the capacity of institutions that support the development of commercial agriculture is one of the operational components of this project.
