Emerging Voices in ICT and agriculture - CTA Publishing

“The website of the Agromisa Foundation,
through its downloadable publications, enabled
me to become self-taught in poultry keeping,
co-operative management and marketing farm
products,” he said. “The website of Vétérinaires
sans Frontières (Vets Without Borders) enabled
me to find out about rearing agoutis.”
fishmeal, salt, bone-meal and snail shells,
enriched with vitamin concentrates. The group
is now busy planning other improvements, using
information found on the Internet, of course.
The young graduate’s business plan was so
impressive that he won funding from the local
authorities and technical help from rural development
agency ANADER to build chicken coops
and cages for the cane rates and buy animal feed
and breeding livestock to get started. With help
from ANADER, N’depo launched a co-operative
of young livestock keepers – nine young men and
five women -- all of them jobless graduates like
himself. The venture was soon making enough
to pay a small regular salary to each member of
the co-operative. But there was no time for complacency.
Faced with exorbitant costs for fodder
to feed their growing livestock venture, the
young farmers once again turned to the Internet,
and once more they were rewarded, finding a
better, less costly formula based on maize, soya,
Based on the original essay:
“L’histoire d’un jeune producteur agricole vivant
en milieu rural en Côte-d’Ivoire qui utilise les TIC
avec succès, de manière novatrice pour son travail
: leçons apprises et alternatives envisages.”
by N’depo Akaffou Euphrèm
Key references
Agromisa Foundation : www.agromisa.org
Vétérinaires sans Frontières : www.vsfe.org
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