Agriculture in Bocanda (Centre East, N’zi region) is insufficiently developed, experts from the agricultural world estimated during a consultation workshop on the Bocanda green city strategy which was held from Thursday October 13 to Friday October 14, 2022, under the chairmanship of the Departmental Director of Agriculture and Rural Development, Kouakou Félix.
In addition to taking part in this workshop, experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Water and Forests, but also those from the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development and the National Agency for rural development support (ANADER),
The experts have identified several problems that hinder the development of the agricultural sector in this locality. These include, among others, deforestation, soil destruction due to slash-and-burn cultivation, illegal gold panning and the use of phytosanitary products, the practice of extensive agriculture, the harmful effects of bush fires , lack of mastery of good agricultural practices and poorly distributed rainfall.
To solve these problems and enable farmers in the department of Bocanda to increase their cultivated areas and improve yields and incomes, the workshop made several recommendations. It is about the reconstitution of the forest and the soils destroyed by reforestation, the sensitization of the peasants to the non-practice of bush fires and slash-and-burn cultivation, the rational exploitation of the species of the forest, the eradication illegal gold panning, the practice of manual weeding, the training of farmers in good agricultural practices (crop rotation and crop rotation) and the use of high-performance seeds, the construction of water reservoirs and the mechanization of farming.
The workshop is initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MINEDD). It was supported by a grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as part of its readiness program to build its capacity for mobilizing climate finance as part of the Bocanda Green City Strategy Consultation Project. . This project benefits from the technical assistance of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).
Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse