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00:11:42the GFAC, the Grand Congo Agricultural Fair, is taking root in the collective
00:11:46consciousness as a high place for presenting
00:11:49and selling agro-pastoral products from the 15
00:11:52departments of Congo, local products, but
00:11:56also a place for research and training on future trades
00:12:01land. This August
00:12:05the 2nd edition in Bambou Mingali in the Duel et Fini
00:12:08department, about 50 kilometers north of
00:12:12Brazzaville, the capital. An edition with multiple
00:12:15specificities, placed under the theme "Nourishing the nation
00:12:19and honoring the homeland." The event takes place at the exhibition
00:12:22center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. The
00:12:26launch ceremony of this 2nd edition of the GFAC this
00:12:29Wednesday was placed
00:12:33the Republic, Denis Sasou Nguesso. Among the
00:12:36distinguished guests were the Central African
00:12:40agriculture, who came to
00:12:43this area. An opportunity for the prefect of Duel et Fini,
00:12:46Léonidas Carel Motom Mamoni, to express the
00:12:50feelings of honor and gratitude felt
00:12:53by the people of his department
00:12:56state, because, said Motom Mamoni, thanks to this
00:13:00fair, Bambou Mingali has become the capital of Congolese
00:13:03agriculture. Also, the vision of the President of the Republic, Denis
00:13:07Sasou Nguesso, to make agriculture the pillar of the national economy
00:13:11is further strengthened, a vision
00:13:14concretized with conviction and elegance by Professor
00:13:17Paul Valentin
00:13:23the 2nd edition of the Great Agricultural Fair of Congo, at the heart of
00:13:27the festivities of our national holiday, is not a
00:13:29coincidence, it expresses a political
00:13:32choice, an economic choice and a national
00:13:35ambition, an ambition carried to the highest level of the state by
00:13:39His Excellency Mr. Denis Sasou Nguesso, President of the Republic,
00:13:44agriculture, livestock, fishing and processing the
00:13:47foundations of a more productive, more
00:13:50prosperous and more sovereign Congo. Your Excellency, Mr. President of the Republic,
00:13:56your presence goes beyond the protocol framework, it
00:13:59sends a clear message to the nation. By
00:14:02choosing to personally preside over the launch of
00:14:05this second edition, you reaffirm that feeding
00:14:10priority and a major responsibility of the
00:14:13Republic. But your presence says even
00:14:16more, it reminds us that nothing that is being built today
00:14:20in our rural areas would be possible without the peace and
00:14:23stability that you have constantly
00:14:25preserved. It also reminds us of your
00:14:29consistency, for years, at every stage of
00:14:33national development, you have called on Congolese men and women to
00:14:36return to the land, to produce what they consume and to consume what
00:14:40they produce. This fair is today
00:14:45the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo will continue until August 15
00:14:49next, it will be marked by departmental days during
00:14:53which each territorial administrative
00:14:57entity will be able to present its opportunities and specificities in the
00:15:00agro-pastoral
00:15:01sector.
00:15:07The speeches ended, the President of the Republic, Denis
00:15:11Asongeso, visited the pavilions which increased from 13 to
00:15:16the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo, a sequence
00:15:20marked by direct exchanges with producers,
00:15:22breeders, processors and the
00:15:26many visitors who came to discover the riches of the Congolese
00:15:29agricultural
00:15:30sector.
00:15:37There is no country without peasants, there is no country
00:15:41without peasants, there is no country without
00:15:43peasants.
00:15:49Accompanied by members of the government, administrative authorities
00:15:54Republic, Denis
00:15:57Sasou Nguesso, toured the different pavilions
00:16:01of the Great Fair from beginning to end. At each
00:16:03stage, he stopped in front of the stands to discover the products
00:16:07on display, listen to the explanations of the exhibitors and
00:16:11inquire about the realities they face.
00:16:13Beyond its ceremonial character,
00:16:17this presidential visit reflects the interest in
00:16:20agriculture, considered a pillar of economic
00:16:24diversification and a lever for strengthening Congo's
00:16:28food sovereignty. Denis Sasou Nguesso also
00:16:31stopped at the agricultural machinery stand, where he
00:16:35discovered the different equipment for
00:16:37mechanization and modernization of the agricultural
00:16:41sector. The producers welcomed this visit, considering that it
00:16:45testifies to the interest in agricultural development.
00:16:48We are here both to present the products of our
00:16:51high school, the products that the children make there at the
00:16:55high school, and so it's a pleasure for us to represent this
00:16:59high school. We have market garden products that you
00:17:02have behind there, we came with cabbage,
00:17:05we came with cucumbers, we also have
00:17:09drinks that we produce there in agribusiness, so you
00:17:13have juices there, you have wines that we produced, you also have
00:17:16jams, but we also have livestock products, as you can see
00:17:20there, we have pallets of eggs that we recovered this morning, we also
00:17:24have reformed layers that we put there in a
00:17:28carton, we have three cycles there, we have
00:17:31the college and we have the high school, but there
00:17:34uh the practice is on market gardening. And we
00:17:38came to present our products that the children are
00:17:41producing, we came with purple
00:17:44eggplants. This 2nd edition will allow to
00:17:47consolidate the achievements of the first edition and
00:17:51encourage investments in the agricultural and
00:17:54livestock sectors.
00:18:02We launched
00:18:06the slogan of food self-sufficiency,
00:18:09that was already the end of the last
00:18:13century, we talked
00:18:15about food
00:18:17self-sufficiency in the year
00:18:202000, and we
00:18:23are today
00:18:262026, in the year 2000 we did not achieve the
00:18:30objectives, you see well uh
00:18:34that we did not get discouraged.
00:18:38And we continued to believe that a people who
00:18:42do not produce what they consume, are
00:18:46not a free people. Today, 2nd
00:18:49edition of the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo, I can even say
00:18:53fulfilled
00:18:56because the movement is truly
00:18:59launched and launched across the
00:19:01entire country and
00:19:04launched
00:19:06at all age categories, young
00:19:10people, adults, but also elderly
00:19:13people, also launched at the level of
00:19:16administrative, political
00:19:18leaders.
00:19:21You talk about the ministers, well I haven't seen
00:19:25many euh, the exhibitions of
00:19:29parliamentarians,
00:19:33the assembly or the senate or in a
00:19:37congress, I had given the directive for
00:19:39each parliamentarian to have
00:19:43an agricultural activity, I know that there are
00:19:47initiatives that exist, so
00:19:51these initiatives that exist, even if they are
00:19:54small, they must come and exhibit,
00:19:57so that we feel that euh
00:20:00our entire people
00:20:03euh has embarked
00:20:06on a vast
00:20:08movement of agricultural
00:20:11development, we are
00:20:156 million and some
00:20:17inhabitants,
00:20:19even if the population of Congo were to double by
00:20:232050,
00:20:25as the African Union
00:20:28says, then we
00:20:31will be in the year 2050, perhaps
00:20:35only 12 million inhabitants.
00:20:38So with a vast movement like
00:20:40this,
00:20:43the land we have, the sun we have,
00:20:46water, forests, our people will produce
00:20:50food, feed the people, not uh remain
00:20:54dependent. That does not mean that we will
00:20:57not buy from others what we cannot
00:21:01produce ourselves. Yes, we will buy from others,
00:21:05but we will also sell, we will also
00:21:08sell to others, and so
00:21:11uh I decided
00:21:13that uh every year
00:21:16this exhibition, this fair
00:21:20the Grand Agricultural Fair of Congo, that every year, on the
00:21:24same date, you see,
00:21:27overlapping with the national holiday, this is also a symbol
00:21:30symbole
00:21:33that every time we will
00:21:36celebrate uh
00:21:38uh the independence of our country and
00:21:42we will also announce the march towards
00:21:46independence uh to Lion.
00:21:50the land that our people euh has
00:21:52mobilized
00:21:54has the capacity to feed itself and even to
00:21:58sell to others and I believe the movement is well
00:22:01underway, I leave this
00:22:04fair euh very satisfied.
00:22:22That is done and
00:22:26our event, as you understood, is therefore
00:22:29the 2nd edition of the Grand
00:22:32Agricultural Fair of
00:22:34Congo, it is the Head of State in person
00:22:38who went to Bambo Mingali to
00:22:42see, visit the stands as you followed.
00:22:46On this set, we welcome our colleague Nathalie Fondu.
00:22:50who has scrutinized this event
00:22:53like us and would like to give us a
00:22:57small comment because it is still for the
00:23:00second time in this country that we have seen
00:23:03such mobilization, that we have seen a diversity of
00:23:07products
00:23:09produced in Congo. Indeed, Serge Antoine
00:23:13Yoko, as the Head of State said earlier, he comes out of it
00:23:17satisfied, satisfied.
00:23:20Because for the 2nd edition,
00:23:24State kept his promise, he was
00:23:27there in Bomboumingali, among the people, Serge Antoine
00:23:30Yoko, among the
00:23:33State who is not always at home, he is
00:23:37always with his people, you saw many
00:23:40Congolese men and women who were surprised
00:23:44to see their leader, their
00:23:47guide, the Head of State, right, he saw
00:23:51women farmers discussing.
00:23:54An opportunity
00:23:56for me, I have never seen a Head of State present, who is next to the
00:24:00population, who is always in the crowd, yes,
00:24:04we saw him there discussing with the mothers, we saw him
00:24:07debating prices, he saw him asking for this and that, and so the
00:24:11Head of State kept his promises and
00:24:15of course the objective of the GFAC, Serge Antoine,
00:24:19you said it, it's us. Nation, hm, you
00:24:22remember, uh uh the Head of State started
00:24:25asking the nation, the
00:24:28population to always think about
00:24:30agriculture. I remember Serge Antoine Yoko, I was still
00:24:34in primary school, I think in
00:24:36CP2, right, CP2 where
00:24:40the Head of State had even asked
00:24:44students, right, in primary schools,
00:24:47he said one school,
00:24:50one field, one pioneer, one fruit
00:24:52tree. Oh yes, but now if we go, uh, we
00:24:56look a little bit, the Head of State said earlier, he had also asked
00:25:00the deputies, one deputy, one field, the
00:25:03parliamentarians indeed, the parliamentarians, one
00:25:06parliamentarian, one field, but have they followed
00:25:09suit? One school, one field, one pioneer, one fruit tree,
00:25:13if we circulate uh cordo, the
00:25:16team of good morning Congo, good morning the world, will we circulate in schools, are there any
00:25:20schools that have fields, we will circulate in schools, it was in
00:25:23my early youth, I was, I think, maybe 7
00:25:27years old, hm, but if in schools there were fields as the Head of State, Denis
00:25:30Sassou Nguesso, had requested, today,
00:25:34for schools, there should be school canteens, and school
00:25:38canteens should take what they are cultivating
00:25:41in these schools and these are organic products, it should be
00:25:45organic products, they would feed on what they produce, well
00:25:48there you go and he had also said, a people
00:25:51who do not produce what they consume, is not a free people, he said
00:25:55it again just now, in any case he is always
00:25:59inciting the population to cultivate, to make sure
00:26:03that we achieve food
00:26:05self-sufficiency, and we can do it, we can really
00:26:09achieve it, isn't that right Serge Antoine Yoko?
00:26:12Indeed, uh Nathalie Fondu, uh it's
00:26:15an event, an event, you saw the Head of State in front of the
00:26:18peasants and uh there is a
00:26:22peasant who was singing uh there saying that uh uh
00:26:25no country without peasants, I think it's no country without
00:26:29peasants, no country without that's an image, right. It reminds me a little bit
00:26:33of this poem, the recitation of the
00:26:36peasant with a bachelor's degree. Just now you were talking about the
00:26:40university students, the bac is the first university
00:26:44degree, the peasant with a bachelor's degree, because today we
00:26:47would like to have young people, young women, young
00:26:51men, university graduates who will
00:26:53then get involved in agro- pastoralism, leaders,
00:26:57bosses as we see in other countries. When you go to Cameroon, Serge Antoine
00:27:00Yoko, you will see young people of 18, 20,
00:27:0425 years old, but who are already bosses because they have
00:27:07embraced this profession, you will see businesses where it is a woman,
00:27:11a young woman like Sijorine who is there, 22, 23, but she is
00:27:15already the boss of a large agro-pastoral company,
00:27:18why not in Congo, why not in Congo, there you go, oh
00:27:21yes, and and also
00:27:24uh it's a way of saying that no, the nation
00:27:28must be nourished, hm, a people who do not produce what they...
00:28:32But if everyone could do the same, if all citizens could do, you know that in
00:28:36Cameroon it's like that, right? Do you know that? There are
00:28:39techniques, in Cameroon, it's like that, they use them in the home,
00:28:43now if citizens could do the same in their homes, we see
00:28:47many plots, they put tiles and all that, couldn't we put
00:28:50sakasaka behind the house, couldn't we put what's that called, uh,
00:28:54endives, biteko, couldn't we put, but
00:28:57they would say you are dirty, dirty because
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