Burkina Agriculture: Entrepreneurs Explore Decent Employment Opportunities

The regional directorate in charge of agriculture, animal and fisheries resources of the Hauts-Bassins, with the support of the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA Burkina), is organizing a series of training and awareness-raising sessions on opportunities for creating decent and remunerative jobs in the agricultural sector.

This training is being held for the benefit of young people in the Hauts-Bassins region, Burkina Faso. It began respectively in the localities of Bobo-Dioulasso on Tuesday, December 24th, 2024 and Bama on Thursday, December 26th, 2024.

The importance of agriculture in the economy of Burkina Faso is no longer in doubt. This is why the country’s top officials have been investing for years to boost this agricultural sector. In this quest for agricultural sovereignty, several NGOs and partners support Burkina Faso, including the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA Burkina).

AGRA thus supports Burkina in the context of agricultural development through the promotion of small farmers. It wishes to provide added value for the development of agricultural value chains and enable small farmers to increase their productivity.

This ambition is in line with the objectives of the Burkinabe government’s Agro-Pastoral and Fisheries Offensive. It is in this dynamic that the NGO AGRA supports the regional directorate in charge of agriculture in the Hauts-Bassins in training young agricultural entrepreneurs in the region. This training involves young people from different localities in the region, namely the provinces of Houet, Tuy and Kénédougou.

In Houet, it involved young people from Bama and Bobo-Dioulasso. According to Serge Bationo, representative of the regional director of agriculture at the Bobo-Dioulasso session, this training aims to raise awareness among producers about the opportunities that can be found in the agro-pastoral and fisheries system to enable them to do business.

Serge Bationo, representative of the regional director of agriculture of Hauts-Bassins, recalling the objectives of the training in Burkina

“This workshop will allow the different producers to have different information in the agricultural field, to see at the level of the agro-pastoral and fisheries Offensive the different businesses that they can have at the level of the agricultural component and on the other hand at the level of livestock and, more precisely, at the level of fisheries and in the production of poultry,” he explained.

For this phase of Bobo-Dioulasso, about thirty participants take part in the session. They will have more information that will allow them to develop their productions in the agricultural and livestock fields.

According to him, the choice of these young agricultural entrepreneurs is not fortuitous. “For agriculture to develop better, the young generation must be better involved in agricultural and fisheries production, since they are the next generation and they also make up the majority of the population,” justified Serge Bationo. He does not fail to highlight the business opportunities offered by this sector.

“For example, in terms of livestock farming, fish farming, we have the floating cages that we are promoting today, which constitute business opportunities. Apart from that, we have the agronomic component which concerns the production of wheat, which is a crop that we thought could not be produced in our region; however, this is false information, because past experiences have shown that it is a crop that adapts better to our region,” he insisted.

Agricultural stakeholders sensitized in Bama, Burkina Faso

Abdoul Kader Samandoulgou is an agricultural entrepreneur in the commune of Bobo-Dioulasso. He is a beneficiary of this training session. For him, this workshop is welcome given its importance for young agricultural actors.

“We welcome this workshop which adds to the ministry’s efforts to support young people. This workshop will allow us, the participants, to acquire knowledge and techniques to support the agro-pastoral and fisheries Offensive,” he stressed. He remains convinced that this workshop will boost their various productions and also create jobs for other young people in the agricultural sector.

After the Bobo-Dioulasso session, other actors benefited from the same training at the rural commune of Bama this Thursday, December 26, 2024. Just like in Bobo-Dioulasso, young agricultural entrepreneurs were made aware of the different opportunities offered by the agricultural sector.

According to Bimbou Kahoun, agricultural engineer at the regional directorate of agriculture of Hauts-Bassins, during this session, several communications will be discussed. These are communications on the Agro-pastoral and fisheries Offensive, on its objectives; a communication on the various government supports for producers.

“Whoever talks about agricultural entrepreneurship must know that there is support that the State makes available to stakeholders in order to achieve the objectives of the Agro-pastoral and fisheries Offensive. This support also aims to encourage other stakeholders in agricultural production,” he stressed. Before recalling the various support that the State makes available to stakeholders. He noted, among other things, the allocation or subsidy of inputs, equipment for the benefit of stakeholders, the financing of micro-projects in the agricultural sector, etc.

For Dama Dieudonné Sawadogo, this workshop is necessary for any agricultural entrepreneur

Participating in this training session in Bama, Adama Dieudonné Sawadogo took this opportunity to welcome the initiative of this workshop. For him, this workshop is necessary for any agricultural entrepreneur.

“To undertake, you have to know the basics, the rules of entrepreneurship. You also have to master the field to be able to evolve well. This is why we welcome the initiative of this workshop which comes at the right time. It will allow us to better launch ourselves in this agricultural field whose importance is no longer in doubt”, he welcomed. After these two localities, other municipalities are concerned by the series of trainings. All these trainings are financed by the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa.

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