SA farmers' big impact on Congolese agriculture
During his visit to the Congo last week and following a discussion with the Congolese President Dennis Sassou Nguesso and the minister of agriculture, Robert Maboundou, Dr. Pieter Mulder, leader of the FF Plus and SA's deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said that South African farmers are having a big impact on Congo.
According to PoliticsWeb, Mulder added that SA farmers who have settled in the African country are now getting the recognition abroad that they're being denied at home.
SA farmers have established themselves on a state farm of 85 000 ha in the Niari Valley. They planted maze and repaired the water pumps and pipes to the land, enabling the local population to have tap water. Where the local baker sold only a few loafs of bread a week, he is now selling 200 loafs of bread a day as a result of the new job opportunities and money available to the local community.
"Within a very short time the South African farmers living in the Republic of the Congo have made a huge impression on the [Congolese] president [and his] minister of agriculture," Mulder said. Discussing the position and future of South African farmers in the Congo, Mulder and president Sassou Nguesso heaped praise on the South African farmers in the Congo for what they had already accomplished, PoliticsWeb reports.
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