From May 6 to 10, 2024, Yaoundé is hosting a workshop to set up a multi-stakeholder platform (PMP) for feed and forage in Cameroon.
At the opening ceremony on Monday May 6, 2024 at the Hotel Djeuga Palace in the city of seven hills, Minepia SG JAJI MANU GIDADO expressed the hope that the contributions of all concerned would lead to sound recommendations, so that the results would live up to expectations and give the industry better days ahead. The workshop was attended by Dr. Garga Gone, Minepia's Director of Veterinary Services, Dr. Annie LEWA UA-IBAR and RAFFS point Annie Claire NGO ONGLA, as well as several heads of value chain stakeholders (breeders, feed manufacturers, feeders, butchers, etc.). The objective of this workshop was to identify feed and forage data needs aligned with priority needs and actions in Cameroon, to identify and map the main actors in data management in the feed and forage sector in Cameroon, to select data management tools and software, to design a data integration plan for key feed and forage data outlining implementation and data sharing plans and finally to develop a training plan.
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Mme Annie Claire Ngo Ongla, agronomist-zootechnician director at Minepia RAFFS focal point
« This workshop is for a resilient project system that aims to encourage the production of the feed that underpins animal production. As you know, feed accounts for 60 to 70% of animal production, so we want to develop and strengthen the feed production system in Cameroon, in particular the production of feedstuffs, which constitute the complete feed, and the production of fodder, which constitutes the available biomass. So this workshop will enable us to set up a platform for these different players to be able to collect data, because we have a real problem collecting data on feed production in Cameroon, and to bring together the players in forage production and feed production. Participants come from all ten regions of the country. For the first two days, we'll be working with the players to set up the platform, which we'll be able to monitor. On the following two days, we'll be setting up a data collection system with the support of statisticians, and on Friday we'll be focusing on women, because we're in the process of setting up a network of women involved in agribusiness. It's a national representation that we're setting up because it's already on the continental level. A series of resolutions will be taken with the aim of better controlling production and quality, because right now it's a question of putting order into the sector in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. ».
BOBBO BAKARI, CENEEBCAM
« We need certain equipment in terms of mechanization. Breeders are waiting and ready to accept whatever measures are proposed. Today we're more dependent on sodecotton and sometimes that's not enough, there are climatic hazards, and if we can have the possibility of storage, of preserving them well and then in difficult times and being able to feed our animals that would be a good thing. ».
Clément Noumsi
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