The Gov has realized its mistake of underinvestment in Ag sector and now is playing catch-up. They have held an Ag investment plan meeting promising to invest $6 billions from 2013-2020.
It's not a coincindence that the Mining sector is leading the growth in Congo right now. The mining sector received more than $10 billion investment in the last 10 years.
It is now the turn of the Ag sector to attract investments
They might have realized mistakes of neglecting this vital industry....
But I still don't see anything concrete or serious . All they do is talks.
Also waiting for foreign investors is the worst thing to do instead of supporting Congolese farmers. Real agriculture development is to support and protect your farmers.
Katanga , Kasai, NK consume lots of Corn....Katanga alone should have been producing 15 million tones of Corn....NK 5 million Tones and the Kasais 20 million tones per annum.
Beans and Potatoes are heavily consumesd in NK, the governor there should heavily invest and subsudize and modernize this domain etc...
The CG needs to make it a priority of priorities by encouraging each province heavily invest in specialized in food crops that is heavily consumed in each provinces.....Stuff like Veggies and fruits must be in every province
Agroculture Credit Banks and Seeds/agro research centers needs to be created as well. where people should get loans/credit for their farming business , get trained, get info on advanced and efficient farming technics and of course infrastructures and electriocity as well as subsidies ...a successful agroculture deepnd on these things....
This thing about someone having 2-5 hetcraes must be pput to na end....Small farmers between 25-50 Hectares/farmer.....Medium farms between 100--250 hetcares/farmer and large between 500-1000 hectares.....IMO, no single farmer should own more than 1000 Hectares and should depend on the sort of farming he/she is doing.
This is an industry that would employ 10s of Millions directly and indirectly, provide formal jobs, good income etc, reduce inflanyion, poverty will be out faster and consumer power will increase for other businesses around the country and the impact of the economic growth will be felt by everyone in he country....an industry that would make the country grow uindouble digits and would attract lots of food processing, light manufacturiing investors.
Agriculture is wide range sector. The gov Ag investment plan mixes small farmer farming and big business farming combined with Research & development as well as financing.
NOwadays most of the agricultural planning is done at the provincial level anyways. Central gov is just backing up provincial plans.
Let's wish the Ag. investment plan well! If it works it will become one of the main drivers of economic growth as well as poverty reducer
What bothers me is the facts that small farmers get taxed....this is a big no no no. should never happen. they should be ZERO tax on farmers.
Also, the CG needs to get serious by leaving the provinces with their 40% revenues which will allow the provinces to get enough revenues to invest in the industry.
Im talking about creating agro builtural developments where farmers should get loans/credit.
We have that major in High schools and Universities/colleges already (Its called Commercial, focused on Business/company management, finance/accounting).....but it needs to be updated/reformed , especially adding the particular Open business class.
Banks and even the governments need to provide loans/credit to people that want to open businesses.
You can have all those who studied how to open, operate and manage a business as well as 3 days or even 5 hours to open a businesses but where will many of them get resources to open one? and if that's done, how will the business grow if there are no infrastructures (logistics and Energy).
We need this to develop faster! Temps-Moyens-Activités-Résultats-Qualité (TMARQ)
RD Congo / Province : Le vice-gouverneur du Kasaï Oriental propose un mode de gestion axé sur les résultats
Mbujimayi, 19/05(ACP).-[/B]
Mbujimayi, 19/05(ACP).
- Le vice-gouverneur de la province du Kasaï Oriental Bruno Kazadi Bukasa a présidé, au cours du weekend sur le campus de Tshikama, une conférence-débat à l’intention des étudiants de la Faculté des lettres de l’Université de Mbuji-Mayi, a constaté l’ACP sur place.
L’intervention de M. Bruno Bukasa portait essentiellement sur une étude basée sur l’importance de la gestion axée sur les résultats (GAR), associé au système « Temps-Moyens-Activités-Résultats-Qualité » (TMARQ, dans les programmes de développement en République démocratique du Congo. Pour l’orateur, les deux systèmes mettent un accent particulier sur les avantages des systèmes qui favoriseraient la bonne atteinte des objectifs du millénaire pour le développement. Il a par ailleurs annoncé la publication imminente d’un ouvrage sur le système TMARQ et le développement au Kasaï Oriental.
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