BURKINA-FASO: ACTION PLAN FOR FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY/ THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO MOBILISE 592 BILLION FOR AGRICULTURE
At the weekly government meeting held in Ouagadougou on Wednesday 30 August 2023, the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Resources and Fisheries, Ismaël Sombié, presented an action plan aimed at achieving food self-sufficiency by 2025. The plan is also expected to create decent jobs in Burkina’s agro-pastoral sector.
The operational plan is called “Agropastoral and Fisheries Offensive 2023-2025”. According to the minister, Major Ismaël Sombié, its aim is to ensure the country’s food sovereignty. It defines priority action programmes arising from the action of the many players and instruments of the Transition in agriculture and livestock.
The Minister emphasised that the plan focuses on certain key sectors with a view to creating a significant impact from the actions of the various stakeholders.
To this end, it takes into account 8 key sectors, namely rice, maize, potatoes, wheat, fish, livestock-meat, poultry and mangoes.
The plan covers the period from 2023 to 2025, at an estimated cost of 592 billion CFA francs. Of this amount, 46% will be financed by public resources, i.e. 275 billion CFA francs, from a restructuring of the ministry’s projects and programmes to bring their investments into line with those of the plan. The other part of the budget is expected to receive private funding of CFAF 317 billion, equivalent to 54% of the amount.
Minister Sombié added that the implementation of this plan will be of great benefit to young people, women, internally displaced persons and volunteers for the defence of the Party, since it will enable the creation of 100,000 jobs.
The development of the plan is in line with the vision of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who has made agriculture his second priority after the reconquest of the national territory. The Head of State has already put in place a number of measures to achieve food sovereignty. Even the army has been called upon to contribute.
Islama MANEY
