The “Alliance for the production and marketing of dehydrated attiéké (APCAD)” project took stock of its activities during a workshop on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, in Sapouy, in the Center-West region.
The “Alliance for the production and marketing of dehydrated attiéké (APCAD)” project, implemented since March 2023, has ended. It is in this dynamic that he brought together, during a workshop, his stakeholders (cassava producers and buyers, administrative authorities, etc.), in Sapouy, in the Center-West region, Tuesday October 29, 2024 , to take stock of its activities over 20 months.
At the opening of the workshop, the representative of the High Commissioner of the Ziro province, Adams Davou, immediately praised the achievements of APCAD in the communes of Sapouy and Cassou, in such a short time. time. This involves improving the income of cassava producers and processors with the specific beneficiaries of two cassava cooperative companies in Sapouy and Cassou and the agri-food company NanAlim.
More than 200 cooperative members, according to APCAD officials, were trained in cassava production techniques, agroecological practices and cooperative governance. They also benefited from mesh fences on 22 sites of more than 31 hectares (ha), 10 equipped boreholes, 11 tricycles, 9 motorized tillers and small equipment for the production of compost, they suggested.
As for the NanAlim company, it has been equipped with agri-food processing capabilities, safety in the workplace, with an emphasis on safety standards to make dehydrated attiéké competitive, with the acquisition of a dryer. electric production capacity of one ton
Plea for the renewal of the project
Adams Davou, also secretary general of Ziro, while pleading for the renewal of the project, called on populations to consume locally produced cassava. The CORADE agency (Advice, research-action and development of expertise) is a Burkinabe law consultancy which collaborates with the project. Its director and co-founder, Gifty Narh/Guiella, “training” program manager, congratulated the various actors who, in her words, were the centerpiece of APCAD’s success.
“There was strong support from the communities which made it possible to catch up somewhat,” she declared. The deputy general director of the NanAlim company, Kiswensida David Armel Ouédraogo, maintained that APCAD will help improve the company’s productivity. As for the manager of cassava producers in the village of Tiagao, Bapan Nignan, he hoped that the project would be renewed for the full development of the cassava sector in the locality.
At the end of the workshop, field schools were visited to see agro-ecological practices in cassava cultivation. Thus, in Tiagao, the APCAD team paid tribute to model cassava producers, namely Ousséni Zoundi and Aboubacar Sawadogo who, on fenced sites, respectively produce cassava cuttings and process cassava. APCAD is a sub-project of the Contract Agriculture and Ecological Transition Project (PACTE).
Boukary BONKOUNGOU