Kinshasa: Coaching for farmers recommended promoting development in rural areas 

Kinshasa, April 15^th, 2025 (CPA) – The supervision of farmers to promote development in rural areas was recommended on Tuesday to the students and technicians of a rural development college at a scientific morning organized in Limete, a town in the center of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  ‘We recommend that rural development technicians and post-graduate students at this establishment and elsewhere play the role of facilitators and supervisors of the farming population in promoting development in rural areas,’ said Abbé Mulung’mper, Chief Officer Manager of the Higher Institute for Rural Development (ISDR) “Mbeo”. ‘Over 80% of the Congolese population lives in rural areas. Development is no longer a question of the authorities imposing a project. Instead, it is about empowering the rural population, ensuring that people take charge of their own lives’, he added. To get out of poverty,’ continued the school’s headmaster, ’the population needs to be made aware, taught and educated. This is part of the school’s mission.  ‘Several projects initiated by the Isdrs +Mbeo+ with partners have succeeded thanks to the training given to our students from this university in the field of rural development, the foundation of development’, he said. This higher education institution remains true to its objectives, one of which is to encourage people to take charge of their own lives.  ‘This is what we call empowerment. Several plantations, farms and piggeries in the province of Kwilu and in the territory of Idiofa have been built by rural development technicians’, revealed CEO Mulung’mper. ACP/