#Gabon: Agriculture: Installing members Prodiag Estuary to Ntoum

 

The Chairman of the Technical Committee Prodiag Estuary is now in office. It has been recently installed in the city of Ntoum by officials of the Monitoring, Development and Agricultural Investment in Gabon (Prodiag) for the Province of Estuaire.Lancé in 2011 on the instruction of the President of the Republic by the Institute Gabonese development Support (IGAD), the follow-up project development and agricultural investment in Gabon (Prodiag) has between missions to participate from innovative agricultural policies to increase agricultural production in major urban centers of Gabon, strengthening food security and the establishment of income-generating activities in agriculture.

It is within this framework that has been recently installed in the common Ntoum, Chairman of the Technical Committee of the project in this part of the province of the estuary to participate in the ultimate goal is to allow for Gabon achieve food self-sufficiency.

Installed, the executive committee for the municipality of Prodiag Ntoum a mission to promote agricultural production, farmers in support of entrepreneurship and develop agricultural perimeters, a set of agricultural policies that challenge people and involvement of political and administrative authorities of the commune.

"This project is expected to grow much extended and hectares of plantation. It would also be desirable for people to be selected are still monitored by local authorities otherwise the project will not have the economic impact that we seek, "said Alphonse Debate Passantère, the prefect of the Komo Mondah.

Part of the pact of national solidarity, Prodiag through its agricultural activities is a vector of food self-sufficiency is an important mechanism for the empowerment of rural and urban populations.

The Prodiag is a project aimed at boosting food production, vegetable and livestock in order to provide a lasting solution to the current global food crisis, including food Gabon dependence vis-à-vis outside.

According to an extensive program of creation of farms in the nine provinces of the country, in addition to other existing initiatives, the implementation of this project is expected to create 1,090 farms and para - Agricultural, generating production additional 13,600 tonnes of vegetable production, food, meat and cassava dough and an annual turnover cruising estimated FCFA 3 billion.


                                                                                                                          Gabon Eco