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00:21:29Now, Mr. Bayerobe, Minister of Agricultural Development,
00:21:35now, to what extent is government's policy of import substitution,
00:21:40you started mentioning it a while ago,
00:21:42applicable in the agricultural sector, to be more specific?
00:21:48I think that import substitution is a very good policy
00:21:54to make us take away the fact that we need to produce for our local consumption.
00:22:04Because, you know, we import, as I said earlier,
00:22:09for 260 billion for wheat every year.
00:22:17We import for 240 billion rice every year,
00:22:24200 billion for fish,
00:22:28about 80 billion of fertilizer,
00:22:34and about 20 billion of soybean every year.
00:22:40This is very important for agriculture.
00:22:43And I forget even the palm oil.
00:22:46We import palm oil for about 112 billion every year.
00:22:51That's why agriculture is a most,
00:22:57I think that this is the vital pillar of import substitution
00:23:03because we need to reverse the threat.
00:23:09And that's why government is putting in place,
00:23:14all the policies are put in place,
00:23:17all the ways and means to produce more to meet the consumption.
00:23:24Not for human consumption, but for animal consumption,
00:23:29even for agro-industry consumption.
00:23:34For, I take an example for the rice,
00:23:38we need to produce about 700,000 tons per year
00:23:45to meet the need of consumption.
00:23:49For maize, we need to produce about 4 million tons per year.
00:23:56Now we produce 2,400,000 tons.
00:24:02So we have a gap of 1,600,000 tons.
00:24:07That's why the project of Saint-Tropez is very important
00:24:12because we intend in this project to develop 200,000 hectares
00:24:19just for the production of maize.
00:24:22With a yield of 6 tons per hectare,
00:24:26we have 1,200,000 per year.
00:24:30This is our strategy to meet the need of local consumption in terms of maize.
00:24:41In terms of rice, we have two axes.
00:24:46The first axis is irrigated rice.
00:24:50We think that we need about 60,000 hectares
00:24:56of irrigated land to produce rice.
00:25:01This is 10 tons per hectare.
00:25:04It will produce about 600,000 tons of paddy every year.
00:25:13And then, beside the irrigated land, we need rain-fed rice,
00:25:19which will produce, according to our strategy,
00:25:25about 200,000 hectares per year.
00:25:33The potential of the production of rice is very, very real in our country
00:25:39because we produce rice in nine regions.
00:25:45I can say that in all the regions we can produce rice.
00:25:48We can produce rice in the center.
00:25:50We can produce rice in the east region.
00:25:52We can produce rice in the west region, everywhere.
00:25:55So we have the potential.
00:25:58The challenges now are the availability of improved seed,
00:26:05the availability of water, the availability of irrigated land,
00:26:10and the availability of fertilizer.
00:26:14Yet, a few years ago, the head of state
00:26:20declared the situation where Cameroonians consume what they do not produce
00:26:28and produce what they do not consume.
00:26:31And this is seen as more acute in the agricultural sector, Mr. Minister.
00:26:38Yes, yes, because now, if you have a lack of production of rice,
00:26:46we have an extra production on cassava.
00:26:50We have an extra production on maize.
00:26:54We have an extra production on sorghum and millet.
00:26:59So we have enough production in planting.
00:27:04So if we don't have enough rice,
00:27:07people can consume cassava or plantain or maize.
00:27:12It depends on the habit of consumption
00:27:17or the way that people consume in any areas.
00:27:23That's why we think that we need to consume what we produce.
00:27:30We cannot let aside cassava
00:27:35and try to consume ultimately rice while we have cassava available.
00:27:45But our duty is to produce more so that,
00:27:52as the head of state used to say,
00:27:55Cameroon will become the breadbasket of Central Africa.
00:28:00And the coffee sector is one area,
00:28:03despite the beautiful stories that have been told about Cameroonian coffee,
00:28:10many Cameroonians do not seem to be consuming coffee grown in Cameroon.
00:28:17That's one area, Mr. Minister.
00:28:20Yes, the problem of coffee is a critical problem.
00:28:24It's a critical problem.
00:28:26We know that coffee was one of our major products in the country,
00:28:37a product which brought us international currency
00:28:46because we were exporting coffee.
00:28:50And when the price decreased on the international market,
00:28:54people were discouraged to produce coffee.
00:29:00We have seen some areas where people destroy coffee
00:29:05to plant maize or any other crops because the price was very low.
00:29:15Now the government has put in place a policy to revamp the coffee sector.
00:29:23The prices are beginning to be more attractive.
00:29:32And the government has put in place a policy to support the farmers,
00:29:40to give them some subsidies.
00:29:44We have the farmer desk,
00:29:47which can give them the possibility to supply fertilizer,
00:29:54to supply some small tools or to supply pesticides.
00:29:59And the Ministry of Trade has put in place a policy
00:30:09to increase the local consumption.
00:30:13And we try to support some actors to process the coffee locally
00:30:23so that this will increase the consumption.
00:30:27We think that we are on the good way.
00:30:31Coffee now has not the same way like cocoa.
00:30:39I don't remember the cocoa.
00:30:41But we are trying to revamp the subsector of coffee.
00:30:47Talking about import substitution,
00:30:50don't you think that the magic wand could be in industrialization?
00:30:58That is, the panacea would appear to enhance development of this country.
00:31:06Don't you think so, Mr. Minister?
00:31:09I think that the development of a country
00:31:14passed through industrialization.
00:31:18All that we are doing now is to reach the industrialization of our country.
00:31:28Because agriculture supplies the raw material for agro-industries.
00:31:35And to increase the income of farmers and to create wealth in a country,
00:31:45we need to handle all the value chain of each crop.
00:31:51And to handle all the value chain,
00:31:54we need to go from the production of seeds or seedling
00:32:00to what we used to say from farm to table.
00:32:07Okay, Mr. Minister, we'll take another respite, a second pause.
00:32:12We've been talking about coffee.
00:32:14We're going to look at the case of coffee production in the West Region
00:32:18with Eric Langmia Wufo.
00:32:31UKO, one of Cameroon's largest coffee growers' cooperatives,
00:32:36has stood the test of time.
00:32:51It was created in 1958 by six cooperatives of the West Region.
00:32:57In the past, almost everyone in the region was involved in coffee growing.
00:33:03The six cooperatives met in Chang
00:33:06to find ways of facilitating certain tasks.
00:33:10UKO was thus given the mandate
00:33:13to solve a number of problems affecting the sector.
00:33:16One of these was marketing the products of all the cooperatives' groups.
00:33:21Another was processing
00:33:23and finding technical and financial partners to support growers.
00:33:28UKO also had a major mission, that of supporting the rural farmers.
00:33:33They helped government implement certain projects
00:33:36such as the Old Plateau Project, the Soja Project and others.
00:33:41Today, coffee growing is very promising for Cameroon
00:33:46and at the same time for coffee growers.
00:33:54Like the Old Plateau Project, the Soja Project and others.
00:33:5966 years and counting,
00:34:01consumers of UKO coffee say their love for the natural product will never fade because
00:34:08It is very, very good, energizing,
00:34:13and it is a natural product
00:34:16that when you consume, it goes to reactivate your hormones.
00:34:21You hear your body molecules moving freely
00:34:25and when you take it in the morning,
00:34:27the whole of that day,
00:34:29every activity that you undertake,
00:34:32it will be moving nice.
00:34:35I want to attest here and certify
00:34:40that it is a very good product.
00:34:43When you take it, you feel it even from your mouth.
00:34:47You see your jaws,
00:34:50you hear how they absorb the product
00:34:54and it goes down straight into your stomach
00:34:57and all the day you feel fine.
00:35:00You see people like us in our age here,
00:35:05we have an interest, a special interest in something.
00:35:09Go there, that thing is good.
00:35:11The cooperative society has greatly contributed
00:35:15to the socio-economic development of the West region and beyond.
00:35:34In general, UKO has built many bridges,
00:35:38routes and developed agricultural production basins.
00:35:42And now, for the planters in particular,
00:35:45we give them loans.
00:35:47They invest and also address economic problems promptly.
00:35:51In its heydays, UKO employed more than 10,000 people
00:35:56in direct employment and about 30,000 indirectly.
00:36:01UKO and its cooperatives
00:36:03were the economic engine of the divisions.
00:36:06Today, despite the numerous challenges,
00:36:09such as the liberalization of the sector,
00:36:12we create some 1,000 direct jobs
00:36:15and about 3,000 others indirectly.
00:36:18Incomparable with its glory days, yes,
00:36:21but UKO remains on track
00:36:23and continues to support rural farmers.
00:36:37To remain competitive in the international market,
00:36:41there is an urgent need
00:36:43for UKO to start producing instant coffee
00:36:47apart from its ground coffee.
00:36:49For this to happen,
00:36:51they need government support
00:36:53to set up a processing factory.
00:37:01UKO can process coffee
00:37:04UKO can process a large part of its product
00:37:07instead of importing processed coffee.
00:37:10This coffee has won major awards all over the world,
00:37:13the last award in one Spanish competition
00:37:16which held UKO for having the best coffee in the world.
00:37:21So, if we process this coffee
00:37:23to the taste of the growers and consumers,
00:37:25we believe that coffee growing can feed the growers
00:37:28and have a positive impact on the state budget.
00:37:33UKO's top management say they won't stop at nothing
00:37:37to accompany the government of Cameroon
00:37:40to better implement her import substitution policy
00:37:44for the welfare of all.
00:37:57Mr. Mison, now let us come back to cocoa production.
00:38:01It is true there has been what they call
00:38:04a spring of cocoa prices lately,
00:38:08more than 5,000 kilograms,
00:38:10and this is causing quite a boom in the countryside.
00:38:14Don't you think that this is just a tip of the iceberg,
00:38:21the forest that might be hiding the difficulties in that sector?
00:38:27Because if you go down to the farms,
00:38:31you realize that, if I'm wrong,
00:38:34you correct me on the figures,
00:38:36at least 70% of cocoa farms today
00:38:39have been abandoned by the farmers.
00:38:42So, don't you think this is kind of a contradiction?
00:38:46The prices are up,
00:38:48but the farmers seem to have left interest in cocoa farming.
00:38:55No, I think that many farmers have been surprised
00:39:01with the increase of the price of cocoa in the international market.
00:39:06They were not expecting it?
00:39:07They were not expecting it.
00:39:09But I think that if the price decreases,
00:39:13it will stop at the level that this price is very interesting for the farmers.
00:39:21It will be a very good income.
00:39:24That's why now we are encouraging the farmers
00:39:28to increase their productivity,
00:39:33to use the good practices of agriculture,
00:39:38to use fertilizer if necessary.
00:39:42We think that at some stage of the development of the plant,
00:39:49we need to use fertilizer in order to increase the productivity
00:39:54and to take care of their exploitation
00:40:01because the very advantage of our cocoa is the quality.
00:40:13We have a quality which comes from the land.
00:40:20We have a special quality,
00:40:22what we call the red color of cocoa of Cameroon.
00:40:27This is special, specific of our country.
00:40:31And if, beside this red color,
00:40:35they apply the good practices in agriculture,
00:40:41we think that the market will always be open for our cocoa.
00:40:47But what we need now is to increase the productivity
00:40:51because now we are around 400 or 500 kg per hectare.
00:40:58This is not sufficient.
00:41:00We can go to 1,000 or 1.2 thousand per hectare.
00:41:09And this demands a lot of work in the field,
00:41:17have a very good or a needed density in the field
00:41:25because now we have about 600 plants per hectare.
00:41:29This is not sufficient.
00:41:31We can have 1,000 or 1.2 thousand plants per hectare.
00:41:38So it means to have new seedling,
00:41:42to regenerate the plantation
00:41:46and to have an improved seedling
00:41:51so that we can have more productivity
00:41:55and more income for farmers.
00:41:59Mr. Minister, this is more worrying
00:42:02because in the early 70s and mid-70s,
00:42:06Cameroon was the number one producer of cocoa in Africa
00:42:10and we seem to have lost that position.
00:42:15Yes, but now we are the third or the fourth producer in the world.
00:42:23You know that the specificity of our country
00:42:28is the diversity in agriculture.
00:42:31So we don't focus just on only one crop.
00:42:37We have sugar, we have roba, we have palm oil,
00:42:42we have cocoa, we have coffee, we have cotton.
00:42:45We have many cash crops in our country.
00:42:51That's why diversity, I can think,
00:42:57is our force for this country
00:43:01because for other countries,
00:43:06when the price of cocoa decreases,
00:43:11all the economy is down.
00:43:14But in our country, we have a diversity of crops.
00:43:18So when we have some problem in coffee,
00:43:21we can revamp cocoa, we can revamp roba,
00:43:25we can revamp sugar and many, many other crops.
00:43:29And in the past, many farmers have been encouraged
00:43:33by a periodic fair that used to be organized
00:43:36during which they showcase the fruits of the soil.
00:43:41They showcase their prowess as farmers.
00:43:44I'm talking about the agricultural shows,
00:43:47Mr. Minister.
00:43:49What has happened to what we commonly call agricultural shows?
00:43:54The last one took place from the 17th
00:43:58to the 22nd of January 2011.
00:44:04What has happened to the very much appreciated
00:44:08agricultural shows in Cameroon?
00:44:11Yes, we think that organizing agricultural shows
00:44:15needs a lot of means, a lot of organization,
00:44:20a lot of preparation.
00:44:22But we are trying year to year or every two years
00:44:29to organize what we call mini agricultural shows
00:44:36in each region.
00:44:38A few weeks ago, we organized Siagros in Gawa
00:44:44for the three northern regions.
00:44:47It was a very big event and many farmers were very proud
00:44:52to come and show their skill, their ability,
00:44:56what they can do by producing on the field.
00:45:01We think that this is a very important moment
00:45:06for all the farmers, for all those actors
00:45:11of agribusiness.
00:45:14It's a very important moment even for government
00:45:19because during the last agri-show in Ebola,
00:45:24the head of state gave the direction
00:45:28for second agriculture.
00:45:34Second generation?
00:45:35Second generation agriculture.
00:45:36So where are we with it?
00:45:38Second generation agriculture means that agriculture
00:45:42which gives more income to farmers,
00:45:46mechanized agriculture, agriculture which gives farmers
00:45:52the possibility to resolve their basic needs.
00:46:01And we think that we are working on those
00:46:06second generation.
00:46:08There are certain points or certain aspects
00:46:12which we can think that are already fulfilled.
00:46:19But there are other points like producing fertilizer
00:46:25in the country or mechanizing the agriculture.
00:46:34Those aspects need more funding and more capacity
00:46:40and we are working with the private sector
00:46:42to achieve those parts of second generation agriculture.
00:46:47Quite often, President Pogbia on February 10th
00:46:51when he's addressing the youth,
00:46:53he's fond of inviting the youth to take interest
00:47:00in agriculture, that the soil never fails and never lies.
00:47:05In other words, President Pogbia has been encouraging
00:47:08the young people to take an interest
00:47:11in agricultural activities.
00:47:14But when we look at magazines, the optics do not seem
00:47:17to tie with what the president is saying
00:47:20because when we look at maybe magazines that are produced
00:47:22by a ministry and other structures,
00:47:24the people they put on the front page
00:47:28are not young people.
00:47:30It's the people who have gray hair like you and me.
00:47:33And so how do you encourage young people
00:47:37to take interest in agriculture, Mr. Minister,
00:47:40whereas on all communication gadgets like magazines,
00:47:44we see that old people have to say that
00:47:46it's the thing of the old people.
00:47:48We should have expected to see young people featuring
00:47:51on the front pages of such magazines.
00:47:55Yes, there's a problem of communication,
00:47:58but we think that in the government policy
00:48:01we have many, many programs and projects
00:48:05which encourage youth employment.
00:48:09We have many projects in which we encourage
00:48:17the youth to come in a vocational training program.
00:48:22And after the training, the government gives them funds
00:48:31to go and initiate or implement their own agribusiness
00:48:37on the field.
00:48:39And now with the Ministry of Finance,
00:48:43we have put in place some facilities
00:48:48so that we have now two banks
00:48:52which can give funds to young people in agribusiness.
00:48:58And the prime minister, head of government,
00:49:02have signed an order to encourage
00:49:07the financial institution to give loans
00:49:11for agricultural business on the field.
00:49:16We think that we are trying to do the best
00:49:23to attract those young people to come in agriculture
00:49:29because we think that, as the president used to say,
00:49:33agriculture is our real wealth.
00:49:36So our country is an agricultural country.
00:49:40Our real wealth is agriculture.
00:49:43We need more financial resources.
00:49:47And we are looking now at green funding
00:49:53or carbon credit funding
00:49:56in order to increase the possibility
00:50:00of the government and the banks
00:50:03to give financial resources to all the young people
00:50:12who will come to set up an activity in agribusiness.
00:50:16That shows the importance of agriculture
00:50:19and that will permit us to take our last pause on the program
00:50:23to examine the importance of agriculture
00:50:26in a country like Cameroon.
00:50:28Now what is it?
00:50:30What is the importance of the farm to a country like ours?
00:50:34I put that question to you.
00:50:37Agriculture, the oldest industry in the world,
00:50:40has always been considered in Cameroon
00:50:43as one of the most significant economic activities.
00:50:47My dear young compatriots,
00:50:50the development of our agricultural sector
00:50:54will give us a place in the world
00:50:57where we will be able to produce
00:51:02The development of our agricultural sector
00:51:06will be accorded a prime place.
00:51:10In this regard,
00:51:12I urge you to truly revolutionize your mindset.
00:51:18The soil has never betrayed anyone.
00:51:21Do not be afraid to take the plunge
00:51:25and become the agricultural entrepreneurs that Cameroon needs.
00:51:30In effect for many,
00:51:32the contribution of crop and livestock production
00:51:35to Cameroon's economic development is huge.
00:51:38If you have a sector that employs about 70% of the active population,
00:51:43there is no way that sector will not be a very important facet of our economy.
00:51:51Also, the primary sector contribution to our gross domestic product,
00:51:57agriculture alone,
00:51:59contributes to about 80% of that contribution from the primary sector.
00:52:05It is important also to note that the agricultural sector
00:52:11also provides about 15% of our budget tree allocation
00:52:17is coming from the agricultural sector.
00:52:20Beyond the statistics are also countless products and industries
00:52:24that rely on agriculture to make valuable contributions to the economy.
00:52:29Cameroon, amongst other things,
00:52:31is blessed with wide diversity in agriculture.
00:52:36We have a lot of crops.
00:52:37If you go to beans, we have like nine varieties.
00:52:40You go to cocoa yams, we have several varieties.
00:52:42You go to potatoes, we have several varieties.
00:52:46With this rich agricultural diversity,
00:52:49we can create a lot of value chains.
00:52:52These value chains are those things that actually create value in the marketplace
00:52:57because we can produce as many products as possible.
00:53:00For example, you would have cassava,
00:53:02which we can produce water for full flower.
00:53:04From cassava, we can produce cassava flower itself.
00:53:07From cassava, we can produce cassava for full.
00:53:09From cassava, we can produce Bobolo and so on and so forth.
00:53:13About 20% of Cameroon's 475,000 square kilometers of land
00:53:18is under agricultural use.
00:53:20And while coffee, cocoa, palm oil, and cotton
00:53:23are the leading agricultural exports,
00:53:26rice, the price staple in the country,
00:53:29continues to shape the culture, diets, and economy of Cameroonians.
00:53:34In our whole basin,
00:53:35because the Oppanun Valley Development Authority,
00:53:39it's found in five divisions and two regions.
00:53:42So in all our basins,
00:53:44we produced for last year 18,000 tons of paddy.
00:53:49Paddy, it's rice which is not yet hard.
00:53:53Inside the 18,000 tons,
00:53:55we were able to buy about 3,000 to 3,500 tons of paddy,
00:54:05I mean UNVDA,
00:54:07which we are now gradually processing.
00:54:11Providing raw materials for food and other products,
00:54:14agriculture is also a business
00:54:16that provides much-needed foreign exchange,
00:54:19which is the objective of government's import substitution policy.
00:54:24We are happy with the measures that the government headed
00:54:28by the President of the Republic, His Excellency President Paul Biya,
00:54:32is making so that we keep the currency
00:54:36that we use to import rice out of Cameroon.
00:54:40In fact, in 2023,
00:54:43Cameroon imported rice to the tune of 246 billion.
00:54:48This is money that if the rice was produced in Cameroon
00:54:53or farmed in Cameroon,
00:54:54that currency will remain back in the economy.
00:54:58So we at the level of UNVDA,
00:55:01we are trying to do our best
00:55:04by optimizing output yields per hectare
00:55:08and using modern methods of farming
00:55:10so that we can make a substantial contribution
00:55:14to the import substitution plan of the President of the Republic.
00:55:18The challenge now is meeting Cameroon's growing demand for food.
00:55:22Most of our local banks don't encourage production.
00:55:25What they do is,
00:55:26even if the government were to ask me to supply
00:55:29a million tons of cassava flour to any institution today,
00:55:33what will happen is,
00:55:34if I go to the bank and request for the bank
00:55:37to accompany me in the local production of cassava flour,
00:55:40most of these banks,
00:55:41what they do is that they instead encourage you to import and supply.
00:55:45In the meantime,
00:55:46the use of modern technology has become a solution of choice
00:55:50to overcome various operational challenges
00:55:53to the development of agriculture
00:55:55described by the President of the Republic
00:55:58as Cameroon's development trump card.
00:56:01We are already making a lot of strides
00:56:04in the area of post-harvest technology,
00:56:07and so we're talking about processing here.
00:56:09The Harvest Development Authority has been assisting farmers
00:56:13through one of our projects,
00:56:15the Agricultural Infrastructure and Value Chain Development Project,
00:56:18for instance.
00:56:19We have been able to distribute over 300 motorized cassava graters
00:56:25to women groups and school presses as well.
00:56:28Already this year,
00:56:30we are starting full mechanization of rice cultivation processes
00:56:38and transformation.
00:56:40So we're not only limiting ourselves to the production,
00:56:43but to enhance on the quality of rice
00:56:46so that it should compete,
00:56:48if not beat the rice which is imported out of Cameroon.
00:56:52Indispensable, agriculture will continue to provide
00:56:56endless opportunities to improve the lives of Cameroonians
00:56:59while developing an economy that creates jobs and raises incomes.
00:57:04It is agriculture that creates the power of industry.
00:57:09The farmers are already strong in the land sector,
00:57:14the trade, the business.
00:57:16By strengthening agriculture,
00:57:18you are going to launch Cameroon into a real emergency.
00:57:23I am confident.
00:57:54Yes, they are operational,
00:57:56but before the two banks,
00:57:58the government, through another facility of financing,
00:58:03gives means to micro-finance institutions
00:58:07which finance agricultural activity
00:58:13or livestock activity or poultry activity on the field.
00:58:17We have many young people who receive funding
00:58:22from those micro-finance institutions.
00:58:25And we think that the coming of the two banks
00:58:30will strengthen the possibility of the government
00:58:35to give financial resources for agricultural activities.
00:58:43Mr. Minister, as we round off this very most interesting conversation
00:58:47on farming in Cameroon,
00:58:49you are the minister in charge.
00:58:51Now, before the coming of petroleum,
00:58:56the economy of this country relied solely on agriculture
00:59:00to the extent that agriculture was said to be
00:59:03the backbone of this country's economy.
00:59:07Can you, at this juncture,
00:59:09give Cameroonians the assurances
00:59:12that we shall relive those glorious days
00:59:17of Cameroonian agriculture again?
00:59:20Yes, yes, but we need to work very hard
00:59:24because 30 years ago,
00:59:28the challenges were not the same that we have today.
00:59:32Today, we have the increase of the demographic of population.
00:59:37We have a need of agro-industrial.
00:59:41We have a need to feed livestock,
00:59:48to feed cat, to feed fish, to feed...
00:59:51So, the challenges have changed
00:59:55and we need to fast-track our production.
00:59:58And we need new technology,
01:00:01need more fertilizer, need more funding.
01:00:06And we think that the boosting of the production,
01:00:12of the productivity,
01:00:14will not be the only concern of the government.
01:00:17That's why we are trying to attract the private sector
01:00:21to come and work hand-in-hand with the government
01:00:27so that we can meet the need of local construction
01:00:33for human alimentation, for human feeding,
01:00:39for animal feeding and for agro-industrial needs.
01:00:44You are the minister.
01:00:46You have done a proper diagnosis.
01:00:49Therefore, you certainly know what to do
01:00:51to turn things around.
01:00:53Yes, we have made a diagnostic
01:00:58and we think that the main constraints for the private sector
01:01:05is the access to land.
01:01:07That's why we are working with the minister of land and land tenure.
01:01:11So, we think that on the days, on the months ahead,
01:01:16we'll have 10 or 15 actors from the private
01:01:24who will engage in agriculture
01:01:27to boost the production and the productivity.
01:01:31We are working with the youth and the women
01:01:35so that they can find their way in the agriculture or agribusiness.
01:01:41And we are putting in place all the policies
01:01:47that will help our agriculture
01:01:50to become or to play the vital role
01:01:55this agriculture needs to play in our economy.
01:01:59Gabriel Mbairobe, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
01:02:03it is always my pleasure to have a conversation with you.
01:02:07I am very pleased, very delighted
01:02:10to give this information to the public.
01:02:15And thank you, Mr. Achouete, for giving me this opportunity.
01:02:30It's a trial here.
01:02:32We wanted to know if the green beans could be taken in the forest area.
01:02:38Well, the result seems to be conclusive.
01:02:42Despite the attack of these caterpillars,
01:02:45I have already eaten some of these green beans.
01:02:49And I ask you to prepare some for tonight.
01:02:55In any case, Cameroon produces one of the best green beans in the world.
01:03:01And now, in winter, in Europe, they need this.
01:03:07With the green beans, the green beans, the cabbage.
01:03:12If we have a transport system, we can make money.
01:03:18We can make money.
01:03:20I think we should be afraid of imagination.
01:03:22That's what we're going to try to do.
01:03:24Thanks, ladies and gentlemen, for watching.
01:03:28Until we meet again in another fortnight,
01:03:31we say stay blessed, stay safe, and goodbye.
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