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[00:05:02] from the government, support from the Ministry of
[00:05:04] cited the Minister of Agriculture and
[00:05:05] Agriculture and
[00:05:13] is the reflection of the colors of the genius of Congolese agricultural
[00:05:16] producers, the more it shines, the better
[00:05:19] it fascinates, and you from the fields, a production of
[00:05:23] Tele Congo, presented by Michelfil
[00:05:26] Pombou.
[00:05:31] Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, wherever you
[00:05:34] are operational in the field of agricultural production,
[00:05:38] good evening everyone and welcome to the Esplanade des
[00:05:41] Étoiles.
[00:05:46] Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, the celebration
[00:05:49] for the 2nd
[00:05:52] edition of the great Congo agricultural fair on August 25,
[00:05:56] 2026 in Bambou Mingali, a locality
[00:06:00] located in the northern periphery of Brazzaville, will be
[00:06:04] beautiful and very beautiful
[00:06:06] indeed.
[00:06:10] As one would say, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has
[00:06:14] successfully given a special touch to the
[00:06:18] event. Thus, the
[00:06:21] donned its most beautiful ceremonial dress to
[00:06:25] renew itself and give to this celebration the splendor it
[00:06:29] rightfully deserves, namely
[00:06:32] the completion of the paving work,
[00:06:35] the completion of the construction of the exhibition
[00:06:38] stands, the opening of the fountains and the installation
[00:06:42] of the sanitary facilities, not to mention the creation of entertainment
[00:06:46] areas for children, which reassures and
[00:06:49] will allow the most hesitant visitors
[00:06:52] to get in tune with the most
[00:06:55] optimistic.
[00:10:05] The facts are remarkable and undeniable to
[00:10:09] get everyone to agree on this.
[00:10:12] Let's hear from the supervisory authority, we have
[00:10:18] Livestock, Professor Paul Valentin Ngobo
[00:10:22] to share his vision on the particularity. The
[00:10:25] second edition of the great Congo agricultural fair at the infrastructure level, as you can see
[00:10:29] and compared to the first edition which was
[00:10:32] carried out a bit during a rainy period,
[00:10:36] this time we had more time to improve
[00:10:39] things, you will see that we have laid paving stones
[00:10:42] everywhere, there is
[00:10:45] a one-hectare parking lot, 10,000 m2
[00:10:49] capable of accommodating many vehicles, you have seen that we
[00:10:53] have laid paving stones at the
[00:10:56] front, it's quite enormous, it's about 100
[00:11:00] m by 60,
[00:11:03] so it's
[00:11:05] enormous, we have redone
[00:11:09] buildings, redone the painting, you
[00:11:12] have a water circuit, fountains that we have installed and we are
[00:11:16] redoing the electricity as you can see, notably
[00:11:19] the lighting with both our friends from CARESSE but
[00:11:23] also solar panels that we are installing, so
[00:11:26] there is a change, you
[00:11:29] have seen it yourself in the restaurant, the painting has been redone, paving stones,
[00:11:33] so this space is even very large. So we
[00:11:36] have a particularity in terms
[00:11:39] of pavilion, for example, you enter
[00:11:43] you will see a parking lot but at the back of the parking lot we have planned a
[00:11:47] relaxation area, why? Because
[00:11:50] the fair takes place
[00:11:53] during the holidays. And we have thought of the children so that parents can
[00:11:57] come with their children who can play,
[00:12:01] see animals, see
[00:12:03] shows, see the national
[00:12:06] agricultural production, so you have this extra
[00:12:09] element. You see that we have a huge pavilion called the
[00:12:14] pavilion, for all those who do not represent their
[00:12:18] department, who are not breeders, but who have several products to
[00:12:21] sell, you have people who have their foufou who can sell, market gardeners. have
[00:12:25] a lot of space here if they want to come and sell their products here at the
[00:12:29] farmer's market, you have a space for
[00:12:32] research, training and trades in the field of agriculture,
[00:12:37] the environment, forests and
[00:12:40] perennial crops, you have the space for
[00:12:44] our departments, you have seen that we have laid paving stones so it's also
[00:12:47] large, so there's a lot of space, where we had
[00:12:51] launched last time, it becomes a space for companies that are
[00:12:54] currently... okay, so that's a bit
[00:12:57] the particularity, in any case, we won't be walking in the mud, everything
[00:13:01] has been concreted or paved, so
[00:13:04] that's a bit of the particularity at the
[00:13:07] infrastructure level. Now the
[00:13:11] theme of this fair is to feed the
[00:13:15] nation, honor the homeland, why? Because
[00:13:18] on the instruction of the President of the Republic
[00:13:20] who wanted the fair
[00:13:23] to be part of the
[00:13:26] August 15th festivities, well, we took
[00:13:29] into account both the definition of the
[00:13:33] content and the programs. So now from
[00:13:36] August 5th to 20th each year, that's the
[00:13:40] period when the great agricultural
[00:13:43] fair of Congo takes place. That doesn't mean
[00:13:46] that we won't have other fairs or other exhibitions that we
[00:13:49] will organize here. As proof, just after the great agricultural
[00:13:53] fair of Congo, we will have... an exhibition with our Chinese
[00:13:57] friends here and African countries, so it is now a
[00:14:00] national event that will
[00:14:03] take place from August 5th to 20th each year, just
[00:14:07] as we have the marathon and other activities during the 15-year festivities,
[00:14:11] this has consequences in terms of
[00:14:13] content. You have already seen in the advertising
[00:14:17] that every day we highlight a department because
[00:14:20] it is a unifying event for Congolese, it is
[00:14:24] where... national unity happens through agricultural production in
[00:14:28] a broad sense, so we will have every day a
[00:14:31] department that will be highlighted, with its agricultural minute to present the
[00:14:35] agricultural opportunities in that department, we will have
[00:14:39] the dances of that department, we will highlight
[00:14:41] the dishes of that department and of course the products in
[00:14:45] the Congo terroir pavilion. For this edition, there is
[00:14:48] also what we call the agricultural entrepreneurship academy,
[00:14:52] meaning that we have
[00:14:56] Livestock called PAGE project
[00:14:58] for young agricultural entrepreneurship, you can't do better
[00:15:02] and this project makes available a sum of 100 million
[00:15:05] which will be shared by young
[00:15:09] women and men who will have
[00:15:12] presented the best business plans, the best business projects after a
[00:15:16] 14-day training organized by the
[00:15:19] Ministry of Agriculture and so this project well, so some young people will
[00:15:23] benefit from seed funding for their
[00:15:26] project, the competition or the
[00:15:29] training is open since we have
[00:15:32] launched an advertisement for it and the closing date is
[00:15:36] July 31st. So another
[00:15:39] element is that we now have the
[00:15:43] GFA beginning to attract some
[00:15:45] foreign
[00:15:50] agriculture from other African countries and even
[00:15:52] Latin Americans who will be with
[00:15:56] us, we will also
[00:16:00] during this fair see an
[00:16:03] increase in the number of exhibitors, you see that...
[00:16:07] uh the livestock
[00:16:10] pavilion will be much more full this time
[00:16:14] compared to the first edition, we already see from the
[00:16:17] registrations, we will have many young processors of agricultural products
[00:16:21] who will be there, we will have many companies that are already starting to
[00:16:24] set up so there are many
[00:16:28] pavilions, the restaurants are already taken,
[00:16:31] the local products, well, it's normal, all the
[00:16:34] departments will be there and another thing is that
[00:16:38] the agricultural production will be really
[00:16:41] significant. This is the time when we generally have
[00:16:45] a lot of foufou and only at the
[00:16:48] Congo terroir pavilion, which represents the departments, we
[00:16:51] expect about 100 to 120 tons of
[00:16:54] foufous, not counting
[00:16:58] pavilion which will also receive
[00:17:01] actors, for example, there is a group that plans to bring
[00:17:05] 400 to 500 bags of fouf. So there is an
[00:17:09] increase in production, the
[00:17:12] district of Yaya, it's not pejorative when I say the small
[00:17:15] district of Yaya compared to other very large districts, has already sent us here
[00:17:19] 1012 bags of peanuts, well
[00:17:22] I even said that it's no longer production, it's agricultural violence, so
[00:17:26] it's a competition that is already starting,
[00:17:29] I see that compared to our projections, the Niari
[00:17:33] plans to send many products,
[00:17:36] of course, everyone. Even as we speak,
[00:17:40] the actors in the departments from
[00:17:43] Likuala Congo Ubangui are gathering
[00:17:47] fish products, bananas, foufou, everything we have in
[00:17:51] Congo so that all this can come down to
[00:17:54] Brazzaville, to the Bambou Mingali site where
[00:17:57] we are.
[00:17:59] The production will be important,
[00:18:03] you know that farmers uh do a very
[00:18:08] difficult, painful job, but
[00:18:11] they do it for us, they bring this production here in mass to
[00:18:15] satisfy us, and we have planned a larger
[00:18:19] number of buses, these buses, means of transport are
[00:18:22] free and we have published departure and
[00:18:26] arrival points, so we ask Congolese,
[00:18:30] inhabitants, citizens, everyone, to
[00:18:34] come and stock up here and put their...
[00:18:37] product, their bag of foufou in the bus and to
[00:18:40] Brazzaville and at that moment they will take their taxi to take it home, so
[00:18:44] an important production, obviously when
[00:18:48] production is important, prices will drop a little, you will see that, well, I
[00:18:52] already see that there is a group that plans to sell its bag of foufou at
[00:18:55] 13,000, others at 15,000 and so on, so
[00:18:58] all that will also depend on the market movement, it's a market,
[00:19:02] it's the law of supply and demand, but they still
[00:19:06] have that in mind.
[00:19:08] "We must sell at an affordable price for our fellow citizens, so we
[00:19:12] ask the Congolese to come, everyone to come
[00:19:15] and buy these products and use the means of transport that
[00:19:18] are, we tell the
[00:19:22] actors
[00:19:24] not to charge excessively high prices because it is the
[00:19:28] Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock through its
[00:19:32] Congo Agricultural Relay Project, the RAK project
[00:19:35] that sends its vehicles to
[00:19:39] transport these products, so the transport is not
[00:19:42] borne by the actors from the
[00:19:45] departments, so there is no reason for them to charge
[00:19:49] transport to customers, so this is an element
[00:19:52] that also contributes to the lowering of prices on this
[00:19:55] site.
[00:20:00] The various cooperatives operating in the APPs will be present, they
[00:20:04] will be present in the departments because it takes place
[00:20:07] mainly in the interior of the country, but we also have
[00:20:11] those who were not selected
[00:20:13] in the teams among the teams that will represent the
[00:20:17] department but who will be in the farmer's market
[00:20:20] pavilion, for example, as we are in the
[00:20:23] Digne district, the Digne APPs
[00:20:26] have decided to bring 400 to
[00:20:30] 500 bags of foufou here and this foufou will of course be sold at a good
[00:20:34] price because they have received support
[00:20:40] Livestock.
[00:20:44] I always say that if you see
[00:20:48] a certain number of products
[00:20:52] increase in number in our markets, it's because the areas have
[00:20:54] increased,
[00:20:57] not just the number of actors, not just the Congolese who start farming, yes
[00:21:01] but it's because they are starting to cultivate much larger areas thanks to
[00:21:04] mechanization, it's clear, when you look at the
[00:21:08] average areas from our statistics, surveys or
[00:21:11] censuses, we are between half a hectare and 0.7
[00:21:15] hectares, with that, given the small number of farmers, we cannot
[00:21:19] satisfy demand, but the only
[00:21:22] way to do it is to strengthen
[00:21:25] production capacity, to bring in machines to support the farmer and that's what
[00:21:29] is happening, the actors I was talking about earlier who bring you
[00:21:33] 400, 500 bags to the fair, but they are small
[00:21:37] cooperatives, but why are they able to do it? It's thanks to mechanization
[00:21:41] from their branch, the branch of the agricultural machinery operating center which is in
[00:21:44] Odiba, but you will also see during the fair some tractors,
[00:21:48] some new tractors that have been
[00:21:52] ordered, initially, there will be a hundred that will arrive little by little from Pointe
[00:21:56] Noire until they reach 200
[00:21:58] more, that's why we will also
[00:22:01] increase the number of branches
[00:22:05] in the interior of the country, look, you are in
[00:22:08] Niari, the tractor must leave Moulinde next to Dolisie,
[00:22:12] Niari is very vast, so we need to bring the
[00:22:15] tractor closer to Mosenzo, Mianga
[00:22:19] Kibangula. Why should EVO
[00:22:23] tractor to leave Oyo?
[00:22:27] Why should Djambala wait for it to leave Tualie? Why not
[00:22:31] have a branch on the Muryondi side to handle Tiaki, Kingo and
[00:22:34] others. So all this, we are going to do it because we understood that
[00:22:38] it is thanks to mechanization that we will increase production because they
[00:22:42] are not many. They are not many. So sometimes people
[00:22:46] ask us questions, but yes, but we don't really see the impact of the APPs. No,
[00:22:50] there is an impact,
[00:22:54] now let's look at things differently, you
[00:22:57] are in Brazzaville, you know that the people of Mati
[00:23:01] contribute enormously to the supply of foufou to Brazzaville,
[00:23:04] we have five APPs in
[00:23:07] Mati, now if we had not given this
[00:23:11] capacity, this strength to these people, what would be the
[00:23:14] price level, these are people who impact
[00:23:17] Brazzaville, but today we have strengthened. But if we didn't have
[00:23:21] this support, what would be the level of
[00:23:24] So, it's simply because there are not yet
[00:23:27] many actors in the trees and our objective is to reach
[00:23:31] 250,000 farmers working in the areas, at that
[00:23:34] point you will notice the impact, you will notice
[00:23:37] the impact so we are going to increase, of course, depending
[00:23:41] on the means, the number of trees, that is to say, the number
[00:23:44] of actors who will be able to work on
[00:23:47] more than 0.7 hectares because currently that is the norm in Congo,
[00:23:51] so that is a bit of this conversion of actors that will
[00:23:55] systematically allow us to increase pollution thanks to
[00:23:58] mechanization.
[00:24:06] Étoile des champs is a revolutionary
[00:24:09] and evolutionary show. When you watch
[00:24:12] Étoile des champs, it's as if you were
[00:24:16] on the internet, you have information from everywhere.
[00:24:23] Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, already,
[00:24:26] agricultural producers, breeders,
[00:24:30] processors, young national agricultural
[00:24:33] entrepreneurs and foreign investors, have
[00:24:36] announced and registered
[00:24:38] in large numbers on the list of potential exhibitors, I
[00:24:42] am Primaelle Mbala Yoka, I came
[00:24:45] to buy a stand to exhibit at the
[00:24:49] second agricultural fair, I
[00:24:52] am a processor and I produce and
[00:24:56] I process, I
[00:25:00] Lasonga department in the Mokeko agricultural zone and
[00:25:03] I bring the products here to Brazzaville to
[00:25:07] process them and in my cooperative we process
[00:25:10] products such as teas, Soukou teas, it's a 100%
[00:25:14] organic tea and of Sangat origin
[00:25:17] and in my cooperative I also produce porridges. since my
[00:25:20] cooperative is named Prima Bouillie and I produce
[00:25:24] porridges for children, for the whole
[00:25:27] family, I also produce sesame seeds that I
[00:25:31] buy from the Kényallemande department, so in
[00:25:34] Okoyo that I bring to Brazza and what I sell, I process
[00:25:38] peanuts, peanut paste and so
[00:25:41] here are some of the products that we process in our
[00:25:44] cooperative, I am really ready, I already have a
[00:25:48] batch of products and I have already packed them to
[00:25:52] take them to the agricultural fair, products are really
[00:25:55] affordable, you can get products from 100 francs to
[00:25:58] 2500, from 1000 francs to 2500, it's a Congolese price. The
[00:26:02] price is really very affordable for everyone and we are calling
[00:26:06] on the President of the Republic,
[00:26:09] Minister Ngobo to support us, to
[00:26:13] provide us with financial support, because
[00:26:16] currently we are processing
[00:26:20] locally, but we want to have large
[00:26:23] companies, we don't want to stop only at small and medium-sized enterprises, we
[00:26:27] want to have large companies to be able to hire
[00:26:30] unemployed Congolese. So that's why I'm calling
[00:26:34] on Minister Ngobo to really
[00:26:37] come to our aid, to provide favorable support for the
[00:26:41] development of our cooperative. These are
[00:26:44] agricultural producers operational in the field of
[00:26:47] production who have always joyfully expressed
[00:26:50] their pride in the work of large-scale
[00:26:53] national food production.
[00:26:56] For this, several competitions will be held
[00:28:28] during this celebration.
[00:28:31] Notably the competition for the best cassava
[00:28:34] in Congo,
[00:28:36] regarding the
[00:28:45] manufacturing of the basic product, which is cassava
[00:28:49] in the Republic of Congo, we
[00:28:52] have the Boundi district which produces
[00:28:55] good quality cassava, this does not question other
[00:28:59] departments of the Republic of Congo, today we have.
[00:29:03] 15 departments, others also produce, but we observe
[00:29:07] that the cassava that is produced by the Boundi district,
[00:29:10] we have a good quality of cassava by its
[00:29:13] production, I say this of departments of the Republic of Congo
[00:29:17] which are the 15 departments also, but
[00:29:20] specifically that of B produces
[00:29:23] good cassava so on
[00:29:26] August 5th come
[00:29:29] to Bombou but I hope that... Boundi
[00:29:33] will be the first because it produces good cassava.