Kinshasa, July 3rd, 2021 (CPA).– The Minister of Agriculture, Désiré M’zinga Birihanze, exchanged views, Thursday, July 1 in Kinshasa, with a delegation from the company Bio agro business (BAB) led by its general manager , Katchy Mulumba, around the management of agricultural bases, learned the CPA Thursday from a source of the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to the source, these are the agricultural bases of Nkundi and Kimpese in Kongo Central; Mongata for the city of Kinshasa as well as Nkuadi in Kasai-Oriental.
Both parties acknowledged that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing enormous difficulties in flooding markets with local products. It is in this context that Minister Birihanze welcomed the opportunity offered by the Voluntary Agricultural Project (PVA), designed and implemented by his ministry, the objective of which is to produce intensively as part of the fight against imports of basic agricultural products. He stressed to his hosts that the ideal for the government now is to extend this experience across all 26 (twenty-six) provinces of the country.
For the managing director of B.A.B, the great difficulty he exposed to the Minister of Agriculture lies in the transport of agricultural products to consumption centers. On the occasion, he presented the products harvested for the 2020 agricultural season.
The agricultural base of Mongata, in Kinshasa, has 800 (eight hundred) hectares for the production of cassava and cowpeas; that of Luozi in Kongo Central produces rice; that of Nkuadi, in Kasai Oriental, supplies maize and Kanyama Kasese, in Haut Lomami, produces maize. The management of the PVA is granted to the company B.A.B, it is recalled. ACP/NIG