This Friday, November 18, 2023, Guillemette Sidonie JAFFRIN, accompanied by a delegation, was received in audience by the Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (MINEPIA). The new Director of Operations of the World Bank has just led a mission to support the implementation of the Emergency Project to Combat the Food Crisis on the ground, particularly in the five regions concerned by the project. These are the North-West, the South-West, the East, Adamaoua and the Far North. It emerges from this audience that the preparatory activities are progressing smoothly and that the project itself should start in the first quarter of 2024.

MINEPIA made it clear to its host that “the project must start, but activities should be planned carefully before they are implemented with needy populations. All teams are mobilized to reach the populations,” Dr. TAÏGA told his host. For the implementation of this project, MINEPIA will use implementing agents such as CDEN, CDENO, CDPM and MIDEPECAM. This involves the support to be provided to 7,500 breeders, including equipment and production inputs for pork, poultry, table eggs, small ruminants, honey and milk. Support is also expected from 4,000 producers in fishing and aquaculture.

PULCCA’s mission is to provide concrete responses to populations in food crisis situations. Funded to the tune of 100 million Euros or 55 billion CFA francs, the livestock component should get by with at least 13 billion, it will last 3 years.