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Add to Preferred SourcesThe African Development Bank is ramping up the pace of its work in the agriculture sector. Its new strategy to transform African agriculture, approved in May 2016, aims to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Africa and to transform the continent into a net exporter of food products.
This approach is much in evidence in Côte d’Ivoire, where the Bank set the tone in 2012 and 2016 by funding the Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project in Indénié-Djuablin Region (PAIA-ID) and the Value Chains Development Project in the same region (PDC-ID).
The African Development Bank is ramping up the pace of its work in the agriculture sector. Its new strategy to transform African agriculture, approved in May 2016, aims to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Africa and to transform the continent into a net exporter of food products.
This approach is much in evidence in Côte d’Ivoire, where the Bank set the tone in 2012 and 2016 by funding the Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project in Indénié-Djuablin Region (PAIA-ID) and the Value Chains Development Project in the same region (PDC-ID).
In order to give agriculture a new start, the Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project in Indénié-Djuablin Region (PAIA-ID) reorganized farmers in the region with financing from the Bank. In all, 561,000 people in the three departments of Abengourou, Agnibilégrou, and Béttié were involved.
The project is at 80% implementation, yet it has made it possible to develop 566.3 hectares of lowlands, restore 566.4 kilometres of rural laterite roads, build three rural markets, and supply 22 rice-growers’ groups with 64 power cultivators, 64 power harvesters, 32 thresher-cleaners and 365 tarpaulins. The figures speak for themselves: 1,661 hectares of irrigated rice and 211 hectares of non-irrigated rice produced 4,975 tons of rough rice.
The initial results are impressive: 4,214 farmers from 95 farmers’ groups have been trained; 247 hectares produce 2,910 tonnes of cassava per year; 173 hectares of restored banana plantations produce 1,055 tonnes of plantain; 527 hectares of land produce 900 tonnes of maize per year; 100 developed hectares produce 90 tonnes of peanuts; and 43.4 hectares provide 397.5 tonnes of market garden products.
Original source: AfDB
Published on 16 August 2018