Burkina Faso: A resilient poultry farmer
Iliassa SAWADOGO is the founder of "Soongo Élevage". A resilient poultry farmer, he shares his passion for breeding and his commitment to never give up, despite the challenges. The company focuses on poultry farming, offering a variety of products including short and long-cycle broilers.
Iliassa shares about the modest beginnings of his business in 2019, marked by the theft of his first chickens. Despite obstacles such as insecurity, he persevered, gradually increasing production to reach a capacity of 4,500 to 5,000 chickens.
Employees at Soongo Élevage testify to the benefits of working for this thriving business. Iliassa shares a message of encouragement to young people, stressing the importance of sacrifice and planning to achieve one's goals.
Iliassa shares about the modest beginnings of his business in 2019, marked by the theft of his first chickens. Despite obstacles such as insecurity, he persevered, gradually increasing production to reach a capacity of 4,500 to 5,000 chickens.
Employees at Soongo Élevage testify to the benefits of working for this thriving business. Iliassa shares a message of encouragement to young people, stressing the importance of sacrifice and planning to achieve one's goals.
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00:00 When there is passion, no matter how difficult it is, we never give up.
00:03 And at Songo Elevage, the idea of giving up, it even crosses our minds.
00:07 Songo Elevage is an agricultural company that evolves on the side of farming.
00:17 We do agriculture, aquaculture and cattle breeding, but we focus more on agriculture.
00:25 Here we can have chicken, both short and long cycle.
00:32 And usually, hen and hen.
00:36 In 2019, I had acquired 13 local chickens.
00:42 Then I had 8 stolen and 5 left.
00:45 And it was with the 5 that I started.
00:48 After that flight, 3-4 months later, I had almost 50 chickens.
00:55 So from that level, I said to myself, why not launch myself on a large scale.
01:01 When we acquired the land to start on a large scale in 2021, we had put in 750 chickens.
01:10 Then we went to 1,750.
01:13 Then we went to 2,200.
01:15 And now we have a capacity that varies between 4,500 and 5,000 chickens.
01:20 It was with insecurity that we were forced to repatriate our families to Ouagadougou.
01:34 Being a salaryman in general and functional, it is often not easy to join both.
01:42 So you have to have something that will come either daily or weekly or monthly
01:50 to be able to add to what you have as a salary to try to join both.
01:54 I am a farmer.
02:03 I have been working for a long time.
02:07 I have been working for a long time.
02:09 I have been working for a long time.
02:14 I have been working for a long time.
02:20 There was a time when we lost more than 2,000 chickens in one shot.
02:30 There are times when living species die, but it is not to be discouraged and to plan.
02:36 When you have the failure to build on it to be able to go back up.
02:41 And that's what we did.
02:42 The idea of abandonment does not even cross our minds.
02:46 We have goals to achieve and if we have life and God facilitates it, we will achieve them.
02:51 What I also wanted to add to the youth is that at some point you have to accept,
03:02 sacrifice yourself for a while and then you can do whatever you want.
03:08 Since we started, we have friends who do a lot of things that we can imitate.
03:16 But we decided not to imitate them, to sacrifice ourselves,
03:19 to have another source of income before wanting to live like the others.
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