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[00:00:17] and event partners, the President of the
[00:01:36] related to working the
[00:01:40] 5, 2026, marks the launch of
[00:02:08] under the very high patronage of the President of
[00:02:15] and Malian ministers of
[00:02:18] learn from Congo's experience in
[00:02:34] for this 2nd edition, the Head of towards the head of
[00:06:50] for being so many with us this morning, for keeping us
[00:06:54] company this morning in this issue of
[00:06:57] 00242, your local show
[00:07:00] is here, always faithful to the post, as you
[00:07:04] know, your usual
[00:07:07] servants will keep you
[00:07:10] company this morning again on my right.
[00:09:46] and they are in Brazza, they are beyond Brazzaville, so in the
[00:09:50] hinterland, and I take this opportunity to say
[00:09:54] hello to all those who follow us from there, because
[00:09:57] one of them called me once to tell me but we
[00:10:01] are following this show and when he didn't
[00:10:04] see me on screen anymore, he said but what's happening, why don't
[00:10:08] you show up, listen, we are a great
[00:10:11] team and this great team is made up
[00:10:14] of aces, we are all aces and
[00:10:17] that's why uh for two weeks we might not be
[00:10:21] there but good morning Congo, good morning will always live because it
[00:10:25] will have vitality, it has a very very very
[00:10:28] motivated youth and you will always be served, there is also a mother
[00:10:32] whom I often meet at church, Mama
[00:10:34] Alors, Mama Alors, there you go, and
[00:10:38] so all those who follow us, we wink at them
[00:10:41] at the beginning of this show and it's perhaps not what
[00:10:44] we are used to doing, but it must be done because these are people who take the
[00:10:48] trouble to follow you, so you must dedicate a few
[00:10:51] seconds to this world, good morning Congo, good morning world.
[00:11:42] the GFAC, the Grand Congo Agricultural Fair, is taking root in the collective
[00:11:46] consciousness as a high place for presenting
[00:11:49] and selling agro-pastoral products from the 15
[00:11:52] departments of Congo, local products, but
[00:11:56] also a place for research and training on future trades
[00:12:01] land. This August
[00:12:05] the 2nd edition in Bambou Mingali in the Duel et Fini
[00:12:08] department, about 50 kilometers north of
[00:12:12] Brazzaville, the capital. An edition with multiple
[00:12:15] specificities, placed under the theme "Nourishing the nation
[00:12:19] and honoring the homeland." The event takes place at the exhibition
[00:12:22] center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. The
[00:12:26] launch ceremony of this 2nd edition of the GFAC this
[00:12:29] Wednesday was placed
[00:12:33] the Republic, Denis Sasou Nguesso. Among the
[00:12:36] distinguished guests were the Central African
[00:12:40] agriculture, who came to
[00:12:43] this area. An opportunity for the prefect of Duel et Fini,
[00:12:46] Léonidas Carel Motom Mamoni, to express the
[00:12:50] feelings of honor and gratitude felt
[00:12:53] by the people of his department
[00:12:56] state, because, said Motom Mamoni, thanks to this
[00:13:00] fair, Bambou Mingali has become the capital of Congolese
[00:13:03] agriculture. Also, the vision of the President of the Republic, Denis
[00:13:07] Sasou Nguesso, to make agriculture the pillar of the national economy
[00:13:11] is further strengthened, a vision
[00:13:14] concretized with conviction and elegance by Professor
[00:13:17] Paul Valentin
[00:13:23] the 2nd edition of the Great Agricultural Fair of Congo, at the heart of
[00:13:27] the festivities of our national holiday, is not a
[00:13:29] coincidence, it expresses a political
[00:13:32] choice, an economic choice and a national
[00:13:35] ambition, an ambition carried to the highest level of the state by
[00:13:39] His Excellency Mr. Denis Sasou Nguesso, President of the Republic,
[00:13:44] agriculture, livestock, fishing and processing the
[00:13:47] foundations of a more productive, more
[00:13:50] prosperous and more sovereign Congo. Your Excellency, Mr. President of the Republic,
[00:13:56] your presence goes beyond the protocol framework, it
[00:13:59] sends a clear message to the nation. By
[00:14:02] choosing to personally preside over the launch of
[00:14:05] this second edition, you reaffirm that feeding
[00:14:10] priority and a major responsibility of the
[00:14:13] Republic. But your presence says even
[00:14:16] more, it reminds us that nothing that is being built today
[00:14:20] in our rural areas would be possible without the peace and
[00:14:23] stability that you have constantly
[00:14:25] preserved. It also reminds us of your
[00:14:29] consistency, for years, at every stage of
[00:14:33] national development, you have called on Congolese men and women to
[00:14:36] return to the land, to produce what they consume and to consume what
[00:14:40] they produce. This fair is today
[00:14:45] the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo will continue until August 15
[00:14:49] next, it will be marked by departmental days during
[00:14:53] which each territorial administrative
[00:14:57] entity will be able to present its opportunities and specificities in the
[00:15:00] agro-pastoral
[00:15:01] sector.
[00:15:07] The speeches ended, the President of the Republic, Denis
[00:15:11] Asongeso, visited the pavilions which increased from 13 to
[00:15:16] the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo, a sequence
[00:15:20] marked by direct exchanges with producers,
[00:15:22] breeders, processors and the
[00:15:26] many visitors who came to discover the riches of the Congolese
[00:15:29] agricultural
[00:15:30] sector.
[00:15:37] There is no country without peasants, there is no country
[00:15:41] without peasants, there is no country without
[00:15:43] peasants.
[00:15:49] Accompanied by members of the government, administrative authorities
[00:15:54] Republic, Denis
[00:15:57] Sasou Nguesso, toured the different pavilions
[00:16:01] of the Great Fair from beginning to end. At each
[00:16:03] stage, he stopped in front of the stands to discover the products
[00:16:07] on display, listen to the explanations of the exhibitors and
[00:16:11] inquire about the realities they face.
[00:16:13] Beyond its ceremonial character,
[00:16:17] this presidential visit reflects the interest in
[00:16:20] agriculture, considered a pillar of economic
[00:16:24] diversification and a lever for strengthening Congo's
[00:16:28] food sovereignty. Denis Sasou Nguesso also
[00:16:31] stopped at the agricultural machinery stand, where he
[00:16:35] discovered the different equipment for
[00:16:37] mechanization and modernization of the agricultural
[00:16:41] sector. The producers welcomed this visit, considering that it
[00:16:45] testifies to the interest in agricultural development.
[00:16:48] We are here both to present the products of our
[00:16:51] high school, the products that the children make there at the
[00:16:55] high school, and so it's a pleasure for us to represent this
[00:16:59] high school. We have market garden products that you
[00:17:02] have behind there, we came with cabbage,
[00:17:05] we came with cucumbers, we also have
[00:17:09] drinks that we produce there in agribusiness, so you
[00:17:13] have juices there, you have wines that we produced, you also have
[00:17:16] jams, but we also have livestock products, as you can see
[00:17:20] there, we have pallets of eggs that we recovered this morning, we also
[00:17:24] have reformed layers that we put there in a
[00:17:28] carton, we have three cycles there, we have
[00:17:31] the college and we have the high school, but there
[00:17:34] uh the practice is on market gardening. And we
[00:17:38] came to present our products that the children are
[00:17:41] producing, we came with purple
[00:17:44] eggplants. This 2nd edition will allow to
[00:17:47] consolidate the achievements of the first edition and
[00:17:51] encourage investments in the agricultural and
[00:17:54] livestock sectors.
[00:18:02] We launched
[00:18:06] the slogan of food self-sufficiency,
[00:18:09] that was already the end of the last
[00:18:13] century, we talked
[00:18:15] about food
[00:18:17] self-sufficiency in the year
[00:18:20] 2000, and we
[00:18:23] are today
[00:18:26] 2026, in the year 2000 we did not achieve the
[00:18:30] objectives, you see well uh
[00:18:34] that we did not get discouraged.
[00:18:38] And we continued to believe that a people who
[00:18:42] do not produce what they consume, are
[00:18:46] not a free people. Today, 2nd
[00:18:49] edition of the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo, I can even say
[00:18:53] fulfilled
[00:18:56] because the movement is truly
[00:18:59] launched and launched across the
[00:19:01] entire country and
[00:19:04] launched
[00:19:06] at all age categories, young
[00:19:10] people, adults, but also elderly
[00:19:13] people, also launched at the level of
[00:19:16] administrative, political
[00:19:18] leaders.
[00:19:21] You talk about the ministers, well I haven't seen
[00:19:25] many euh, the exhibitions of
[00:19:29] parliamentarians,
[00:19:33] the assembly or the senate or in a
[00:19:37] congress, I had given the directive for
[00:19:39] each parliamentarian to have
[00:19:43] an agricultural activity, I know that there are
[00:19:47] initiatives that exist, so
[00:19:51] these initiatives that exist, even if they are
[00:19:54] small, they must come and exhibit,
[00:19:57] so that we feel that euh
[00:20:00] our entire people
[00:20:03] euh has embarked
[00:20:06] on a vast
[00:20:08] movement of agricultural
[00:20:11] development, we are
[00:20:15] 6 million and some
[00:20:17] inhabitants,
[00:20:19] even if the population of Congo were to double by
[00:20:23] 2050,
[00:20:25] as the African Union
[00:20:28] says, then we
[00:20:31] will be in the year 2050, perhaps
[00:20:35] only 12 million inhabitants.
[00:20:38] So with a vast movement like
[00:20:40] this,
[00:20:43] the land we have, the sun we have,
[00:20:46] water, forests, our people will produce
[00:20:50] food, feed the people, not uh remain
[00:20:54] dependent. That does not mean that we will
[00:20:57] not buy from others what we cannot
[00:21:01] produce ourselves. Yes, we will buy from others,
[00:21:05] but we will also sell, we will also
[00:21:08] sell to others, and so
[00:21:11] uh I decided
[00:21:13] that uh every year
[00:21:16] this exhibition, this fair
[00:21:20] the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo, that every year, on the
[00:21:24] same date, you see,
[00:21:27] overlapping with the national holiday, this is also a symbol
[00:21:30] symbole
[00:21:33] that every time we will
[00:21:36] celebrate uh
[00:21:38] uh the independence of our country and
[00:21:42] we will also announce the march towards
[00:21:46] independence uh to Lion.
[00:21:50] the land that our people euh has
[00:21:52] mobilized
[00:21:54] has the capacity to feed itself and even to
[00:21:58] sell to others and I believe the movement is well
[00:22:01] underway, I leave this
[00:22:04] fair euh very satisfied.
[00:22:22] That is done and
[00:22:26] our event, as you understood, is therefore
[00:22:29] the 2nd edition of the Grand
[00:22:32] Agricultural Fair of
[00:22:34] Congo, it is the Head of State in person
[00:22:38] who went to Bambo Mingali to
[00:22:42] see, visit the stands as you followed.
[00:22:46] On this set, we welcome our colleague Nathalie Fondu.
[00:22:50] who has scrutinized this event
[00:22:53] like us and would like to give us a
[00:22:57] small comment because it is still for the
[00:23:00] second time in this country that we have seen
[00:23:03] such mobilization, that we have seen a diversity of
[00:23:07] products
[00:23:09] produced in Congo. Indeed, Serge Antoine
[00:23:13] Yoko, as the Head of State said earlier, he comes out of it
[00:23:17] satisfied, satisfied.
[00:23:20] Because for the 2nd edition,
[00:23:24] State kept his promise, he was
[00:23:27] there in Bomboumingali, among the people, Serge Antoine
[00:23:30] Yoko, among the
[00:23:33] State who is not always at home, he is
[00:23:37] always with his people, you saw many
[00:23:40] Congolese men and women who were surprised
[00:23:44] to see their leader, their
[00:23:47] guide, the Head of State, right, he saw
[00:23:51] women farmers discussing.
[00:23:54] An opportunity
[00:23:56] for me, I have never seen a Head of State present, who is next to the
[00:24:00] population, who is always in the crowd, yes,
[00:24:04] we saw him there discussing with the mothers, we saw him
[00:24:07] debating prices, he saw him asking for this and that, and so the
[00:24:11] Head of State kept his promises and
[00:24:15] of course the objective of the GFAC, Serge Antoine,
[00:24:19] you said it, it's us. Nation, hm, you
[00:24:22] remember, uh uh the Head of State started
[00:24:25] asking the nation, the
[00:24:28] population to always think about
[00:24:30] agriculture. I remember Serge Antoine Yoko, I was still
[00:24:34] in primary school, I think in
[00:24:36] CP2, right, CP2 where
[00:24:40] the Head of State had even asked
[00:24:44] students, right, in primary schools,
[00:24:47] he said one school,
[00:24:50] one field, one pioneer, one fruit
[00:24:52] tree. Oh yes, but now if we go, uh, we
[00:24:56] look a little bit, the Head of State said earlier, he had also asked
[00:25:00] the deputies, one deputy, one field, the
[00:25:03] parliamentarians indeed, the parliamentarians, one
[00:25:06] parliamentarian, one field, but have they followed
[00:25:09] suit? One school, one field, one pioneer, one fruit tree,
[00:25:13] if we circulate uh cordo, the
[00:25:16] team of good morning Congo, good morning the world, will we circulate in schools, are there any
[00:25:20] schools that have fields, we will circulate in schools, it was in
[00:25:23] my early youth, I was, I think, maybe 7
[00:25:27] years old, hm, but if in schools there were fields as the Head of State, Denis
[00:25:30] Sassou Nguesso, had requested, today,
[00:25:34] for schools, there should be school canteens, and school
[00:25:38] canteens should take what they are cultivating
[00:25:41] in these schools and these are organic products, it should be
[00:25:45] organic products, they would feed on what they produce, well
[00:25:48] there you go and he had also said, a people
[00:25:51] who do not produce what they consume, is not a free people, he said
[00:25:55] it again just now, in any case he is always
[00:25:59] inciting the population to cultivate, to make sure
[00:26:03] that we achieve food
[00:26:05] self-sufficiency, and we can do it, we can really
[00:26:09] achieve it, isn't that right Serge Antoine Yoko?
[00:26:12] Indeed, uh Nathalie Fondu, uh it's
[00:26:15] an event, an event, you saw the Head of State in front of the
[00:26:18] peasants and uh there is a
[00:26:22] peasant who was singing uh there saying that uh uh
[00:26:25] no country without peasants, I think it's no country without
[00:26:29] peasants, no country without that's an image, right. It reminds me a little bit
[00:26:33] of this poem, the recitation of the
[00:26:36] peasant with a bachelor's degree. Just now you were talking about the
[00:26:40] university students, the bac is the first university
[00:26:44] degree, the peasant with a bachelor's degree, because today we
[00:26:47] would like to have young people, young women, young
[00:26:51] men, university graduates who will
[00:26:53] then get involved in agro- pastoralism, leaders,
[00:26:57] bosses as we see in other countries. When you go to Cameroon, Serge Antoine
[00:27:00] Yoko, you will see young people of 18, 20,
[00:27:04] 25 years old, but who are already bosses because they have
[00:27:07] embraced this profession, you will see businesses where it is a woman,
[00:27:11] a young woman like Sijorine who is there, 22, 23, but she is
[00:27:15] already the boss of a large agro-pastoral company,
[00:27:18] why not in Congo, why not in Congo, there you go, oh
[00:27:21] yes, and and also
[00:27:24] uh it's a way of saying that no, the nation
[00:27:28] must be nourished, hm, a people who do not produce what they...
[00:28:32] But if everyone could do the same, if all citizens could do, you know that in
[00:28:36] Cameroon it's like that, right? Do you know that? There are
[00:28:39] techniques, in Cameroon, it's like that, they use them in the home,
[00:28:43] now if citizens could do the same in their homes, we see
[00:28:47] many plots, they put tiles and all that, couldn't we put
[00:28:50] sakasaka behind the house, couldn't we put what's that called, uh,
[00:28:54] endives, biteko, couldn't we put, but
[00:28:57] they would say you are dirty, dirty because
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