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00:05:02from the government, support from the Ministry of
00:05:04cited the Minister of Agriculture and
00:05:05Agriculture and
00:05:13is the reflection of the colors of the genius of Congolese agricultural
00:05:16producers, the more it shines, the better
00:05:19it fascinates, and you from the fields, a production of
00:05:23Tele Congo, presented by Michelfil
00:05:26Pombou.
00:05:31Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, wherever you
00:05:34are operational in the field of agricultural production,
00:05:38good evening everyone and welcome to the Esplanade des
00:05:41Étoiles.
00:05:46Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, the celebration
00:05:49for the 2nd
00:05:52edition of the great Congo agricultural fair on August 25,
00:05:562026 in Bambou Mingali, a locality
00:06:00located in the northern periphery of Brazzaville, will be
00:06:04beautiful and very beautiful
00:06:06indeed.
00:06:10As one would say, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has
00:06:14successfully given a special touch to the
00:06:18event. Thus, the
00:06:21donned its most beautiful ceremonial dress to
00:06:25renew itself and give to this celebration the splendor it
00:06:29rightfully deserves, namely
00:06:32the completion of the paving work,
00:06:35the completion of the construction of the exhibition
00:06:38stands, the opening of the fountains and the installation
00:06:42of the sanitary facilities, not to mention the creation of entertainment
00:06:46areas for children, which reassures and
00:06:49will allow the most hesitant visitors
00:06:52to get in tune with the most
00:06:55optimistic.
00:10:05The facts are remarkable and undeniable to
00:10:09get everyone to agree on this.
00:10:12Let's hear from the supervisory authority, we have
00:10:18Livestock, Professor Paul Valentin Ngobo
00:10:22to share his vision on the particularity. The
00:10:25second edition of the great Congo agricultural fair at the infrastructure level, as you can see
00:10:29and compared to the first edition which was
00:10:32carried out a bit during a rainy period,
00:10:36this time we had more time to improve
00:10:39things, you will see that we have laid paving stones
00:10:42everywhere, there is
00:10:45a one-hectare parking lot, 10,000 m2
00:10:49capable of accommodating many vehicles, you have seen that we
00:10:53have laid paving stones at the
00:10:56front, it's quite enormous, it's about 100
00:11:00m by 60,
00:11:03so it's
00:11:05enormous, we have redone
00:11:09buildings, redone the painting, you
00:11:12have a water circuit, fountains that we have installed and we are
00:11:16redoing the electricity as you can see, notably
00:11:19the lighting with both our friends from CARESSE but
00:11:23also solar panels that we are installing, so
00:11:26there is a change, you
00:11:29have seen it yourself in the restaurant, the painting has been redone, paving stones,
00:11:33so this space is even very large. So we
00:11:36have a particularity in terms
00:11:39of pavilion, for example, you enter
00:11:43you will see a parking lot but at the back of the parking lot we have planned a
00:11:47relaxation area, why? Because
00:11:50the fair takes place
00:11:53during the holidays. And we have thought of the children so that parents can
00:11:57come with their children who can play,
00:12:01see animals, see
00:12:03shows, see the national
00:12:06agricultural production, so you have this extra
00:12:09element. You see that we have a huge pavilion called the
00:12:14pavilion, for all those who do not represent their
00:12:18department, who are not breeders, but who have several products to
00:12:21sell, you have people who have their foufou who can sell, market gardeners. have
00:12:25a lot of space here if they want to come and sell their products here at the
00:12:29farmer's market, you have a space for
00:12:32research, training and trades in the field of agriculture,
00:12:37the environment, forests and
00:12:40perennial crops, you have the space for
00:12:44our departments, you have seen that we have laid paving stones so it's also
00:12:47large, so there's a lot of space, where we had
00:12:51launched last time, it becomes a space for companies that are
00:12:54currently... okay, so that's a bit
00:12:57the particularity, in any case, we won't be walking in the mud, everything
00:13:01has been concreted or paved, so
00:13:04that's a bit of the particularity at the
00:13:07infrastructure level. Now the
00:13:11theme of this fair is to feed the
00:13:15nation, honor the homeland, why? Because
00:13:18on the instruction of the President of the Republic
00:13:20who wanted the fair
00:13:23to be part of the
00:13:26August 15th festivities, well, we took
00:13:29into account both the definition of the
00:13:33content and the programs. So now from
00:13:36August 5th to 20th each year, that's the
00:13:40period when the great agricultural
00:13:43fair of Congo takes place. That doesn't mean
00:13:46that we won't have other fairs or other exhibitions that we
00:13:49will organize here. As proof, just after the great agricultural
00:13:53fair of Congo, we will have... an exhibition with our Chinese
00:13:57friends here and African countries, so it is now a
00:14:00national event that will
00:14:03take place from August 5th to 20th each year, just
00:14:07as we have the marathon and other activities during the 15-year festivities,
00:14:11this has consequences in terms of
00:14:13content. You have already seen in the advertising
00:14:17that every day we highlight a department because
00:14:20it is a unifying event for Congolese, it is
00:14:24where... national unity happens through agricultural production in
00:14:28a broad sense, so we will have every day a
00:14:31department that will be highlighted, with its agricultural minute to present the
00:14:35agricultural opportunities in that department, we will have
00:14:39the dances of that department, we will highlight
00:14:41the dishes of that department and of course the products in
00:14:45the Congo terroir pavilion. For this edition, there is
00:14:48also what we call the agricultural entrepreneurship academy,
00:14:52meaning that we have
00:14:56Livestock called PAGE project
00:14:58for young agricultural entrepreneurship, you can't do better
00:15:02and this project makes available a sum of 100 million
00:15:05which will be shared by young
00:15:09women and men who will have
00:15:12presented the best business plans, the best business projects after a
00:15:1614-day training organized by the
00:15:19Ministry of Agriculture and so this project well, so some young people will
00:15:23benefit from seed funding for their
00:15:26project, the competition or the
00:15:29training is open since we have
00:15:32launched an advertisement for it and the closing date is
00:15:36July 31st. So another
00:15:39element is that we now have the
00:15:43GFA beginning to attract some
00:15:45foreign
00:15:50agriculture from other African countries and even
00:15:52Latin Americans who will be with
00:15:56us, we will also
00:16:00during this fair see an
00:16:03increase in the number of exhibitors, you see that...
00:16:07uh the livestock
00:16:10pavilion will be much more full this time
00:16:14compared to the first edition, we already see from the
00:16:17registrations, we will have many young processors of agricultural products
00:16:21who will be there, we will have many companies that are already starting to
00:16:24set up so there are many
00:16:28pavilions, the restaurants are already taken,
00:16:31the local products, well, it's normal, all the
00:16:34departments will be there and another thing is that
00:16:38the agricultural production will be really
00:16:41significant. This is the time when we generally have
00:16:45a lot of foufou and only at the
00:16:48Congo terroir pavilion, which represents the departments, we
00:16:51expect about 100 to 120 tons of
00:16:54foufous, not counting
00:16:58pavilion which will also receive
00:17:01actors, for example, there is a group that plans to bring
00:17:05400 to 500 bags of fouf. So there is an
00:17:09increase in production, the
00:17:12district of Yaya, it's not pejorative when I say the small
00:17:15district of Yaya compared to other very large districts, has already sent us here
00:17:191012 bags of peanuts, well
00:17:22I even said that it's no longer production, it's agricultural violence, so
00:17:26it's a competition that is already starting,
00:17:29I see that compared to our projections, the Niari
00:17:33plans to send many products,
00:17:36of course, everyone. Even as we speak,
00:17:40the actors in the departments from
00:17:43Likuala Congo Ubangui are gathering
00:17:47fish products, bananas, foufou, everything we have in
00:17:51Congo so that all this can come down to
00:17:54Brazzaville, to the Bambou Mingali site where
00:17:57we are.
00:17:59The production will be important,
00:18:03you know that farmers uh do a very
00:18:08difficult, painful job, but
00:18:11they do it for us, they bring this production here in mass to
00:18:15satisfy us, and we have planned a larger
00:18:19number of buses, these buses, means of transport are
00:18:22free and we have published departure and
00:18:26arrival points, so we ask Congolese,
00:18:30inhabitants, citizens, everyone, to
00:18:34come and stock up here and put their...
00:18:37product, their bag of foufou in the bus and to
00:18:40Brazzaville and at that moment they will take their taxi to take it home, so
00:18:44an important production, obviously when
00:18:48production is important, prices will drop a little, you will see that, well, I
00:18:52already see that there is a group that plans to sell its bag of foufou at
00:18:5513,000, others at 15,000 and so on, so
00:18:58all that will also depend on the market movement, it's a market,
00:19:02it's the law of supply and demand, but they still
00:19:06have that in mind.
00:19:08"We must sell at an affordable price for our fellow citizens, so we
00:19:12ask the Congolese to come, everyone to come
00:19:15and buy these products and use the means of transport that
00:19:18are, we tell the
00:19:22actors
00:19:24not to charge excessively high prices because it is the
00:19:28Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock through its
00:19:32Congo Agricultural Relay Project, the RAK project
00:19:35that sends its vehicles to
00:19:39transport these products, so the transport is not
00:19:42borne by the actors from the
00:19:45departments, so there is no reason for them to charge
00:19:49transport to customers, so this is an element
00:19:52that also contributes to the lowering of prices on this
00:19:55site.
00:20:00The various cooperatives operating in the APPs will be present, they
00:20:04will be present in the departments because it takes place
00:20:07mainly in the interior of the country, but we also have
00:20:11those who were not selected
00:20:13in the teams among the teams that will represent the
00:20:17department but who will be in the farmer's market
00:20:20pavilion, for example, as we are in the
00:20:23Digne district, the Digne APPs
00:20:26have decided to bring 400 to
00:20:30500 bags of foufou here and this foufou will of course be sold at a good
00:20:34price because they have received support
00:20:40Livestock.
00:20:44I always say that if you see
00:20:48a certain number of products
00:20:52increase in number in our markets, it's because the areas have
00:20:54increased,
00:20:57not just the number of actors, not just the Congolese who start farming, yes
00:21:01but it's because they are starting to cultivate much larger areas thanks to
00:21:04mechanization, it's clear, when you look at the
00:21:08average areas from our statistics, surveys or
00:21:11censuses, we are between half a hectare and 0.7
00:21:15hectares, with that, given the small number of farmers, we cannot
00:21:19satisfy demand, but the only
00:21:22way to do it is to strengthen
00:21:25production capacity, to bring in machines to support the farmer and that's what
00:21:29is happening, the actors I was talking about earlier who bring you
00:21:33400, 500 bags to the fair, but they are small
00:21:37cooperatives, but why are they able to do it? It's thanks to mechanization
00:21:41from their branch, the branch of the agricultural machinery operating center which is in
00:21:44Odiba, but you will also see during the fair some tractors,
00:21:48some new tractors that have been
00:21:52ordered, initially, there will be a hundred that will arrive little by little from Pointe
00:21:56Noire until they reach 200
00:21:58more, that's why we will also
00:22:01increase the number of branches
00:22:05in the interior of the country, look, you are in
00:22:08Niari, the tractor must leave Moulinde next to Dolisie,
00:22:12Niari is very vast, so we need to bring the
00:22:15tractor closer to Mosenzo, Mianga
00:22:19Kibangula. Why should EVO
00:22:23tractor to leave Oyo?
00:22:27Why should Djambala wait for it to leave Tualie? Why not
00:22:31have a branch on the Muryondi side to handle Tiaki, Kingo and
00:22:34others. So all this, we are going to do it because we understood that
00:22:38it is thanks to mechanization that we will increase production because they
00:22:42are not many. They are not many. So sometimes people
00:22:46ask us questions, but yes, but we don't really see the impact of the APPs. No,
00:22:50there is an impact,
00:22:54now let's look at things differently, you
00:22:57are in Brazzaville, you know that the people of Mati
00:23:01contribute enormously to the supply of foufou to Brazzaville,
00:23:04we have five APPs in
00:23:07Mati, now if we had not given this
00:23:11capacity, this strength to these people, what would be the
00:23:14price level, these are people who impact
00:23:17Brazzaville, but today we have strengthened. But if we didn't have
00:23:21this support, what would be the level of
00:23:24So, it's simply because there are not yet
00:23:27many actors in the trees and our objective is to reach
00:23:31250,000 farmers working in the areas, at that
00:23:34point you will notice the impact, you will notice
00:23:37the impact so we are going to increase, of course, depending
00:23:41on the means, the number of trees, that is to say, the number
00:23:44of actors who will be able to work on
00:23:47more than 0.7 hectares because currently that is the norm in Congo,
00:23:51so that is a bit of this conversion of actors that will
00:23:55systematically allow us to increase pollution thanks to
00:23:58mechanization.
00:24:06Étoile des champs is a revolutionary
00:24:09and evolutionary show. When you watch
00:24:12Étoile des champs, it's as if you were
00:24:16on the internet, you have information from everywhere.
00:24:23Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, already,
00:24:26agricultural producers, breeders,
00:24:30processors, young national agricultural
00:24:33entrepreneurs and foreign investors, have
00:24:36announced and registered
00:24:38in large numbers on the list of potential exhibitors, I
00:24:42am Primaelle Mbala Yoka, I came
00:24:45to buy a stand to exhibit at the
00:24:49second agricultural fair, I
00:24:52am a processor and I produce and
00:24:56I process, I
00:25:00Lasonga department in the Mokeko agricultural zone and
00:25:03I bring the products here to Brazzaville to
00:25:07process them and in my cooperative we process
00:25:10products such as teas, Soukou teas, it's a 100%
00:25:14organic tea and of Sangat origin
00:25:17and in my cooperative I also produce porridges. since my
00:25:20cooperative is named Prima Bouillie and I produce
00:25:24porridges for children, for the whole
00:25:27family, I also produce sesame seeds that I
00:25:31buy from the Kényallemande department, so in
00:25:34Okoyo that I bring to Brazza and what I sell, I process
00:25:38peanuts, peanut paste and so
00:25:41here are some of the products that we process in our
00:25:44cooperative, I am really ready, I already have a
00:25:48batch of products and I have already packed them to
00:25:52take them to the agricultural fair, products are really
00:25:55affordable, you can get products from 100 francs to
00:25:582500, from 1000 francs to 2500, it's a Congolese price. The
00:26:02price is really very affordable for everyone and we are calling
00:26:06on the President of the Republic,
00:26:09Minister Ngobo to support us, to
00:26:13provide us with financial support, because
00:26:16currently we are processing
00:26:20locally, but we want to have large
00:26:23companies, we don't want to stop only at small and medium-sized enterprises, we
00:26:27want to have large companies to be able to hire
00:26:30unemployed Congolese. So that's why I'm calling
00:26:34on Minister Ngobo to really
00:26:37come to our aid, to provide favorable support for the
00:26:41development of our cooperative. These are
00:26:44agricultural producers operational in the field of
00:26:47production who have always joyfully expressed
00:26:50their pride in the work of large-scale
00:26:53national food production.
00:26:56For this, several competitions will be held
00:28:28during this celebration.
00:28:31Notably the competition for the best cassava
00:28:34in Congo,
00:28:36regarding the
00:28:45manufacturing of the basic product, which is cassava
00:28:49in the Republic of Congo, we
00:28:52have the Boundi district which produces
00:28:55good quality cassava, this does not question other
00:28:59departments of the Republic of Congo, today we have.
00:29:0315 departments, others also produce, but we observe
00:29:07that the cassava that is produced by the Boundi district,
00:29:10we have a good quality of cassava by its
00:29:13production, I say this of departments of the Republic of Congo
00:29:17which are the 15 departments also, but
00:29:20specifically that of B produces
00:29:23good cassava so on
00:29:26August 5th come
00:29:29to Bombou but I hope that... Boundi
00:29:33will be the first because it produces good cassava.