The Burkina Faso Agricultural Development Company (SODAF)

Richard Moné, agricultural engineer, founder of the Société de Développement Agricole du Faso (SODAF).

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By: Sayouba Traoré

3 min

For African agriculture to meet the needs of populations, a profound change is needed.

And for this change to succeed, it is now necessary to train agricultural technicians capable of managing a farm.

This is what we will see today with the example of the Société de Développement Agricole du Faso, in Loumbila in the outskirts of the city of Ouagadougou.

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Already, the period of agronomy studies is difficult.

Usually, in these countries, a young person comes from a poor family, and he himself has nothing.

And at the end of the studies, once the diploma in hand, comes the period of disillusionment.

We have skills that only the State can use.

Governments happen to have limited budgets.

There is only one solution: to become your own employer.

We start, knowing full well that we do not have managerial skills.

So much so that the young person who creates his farm learns by walking.

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Richard Moné

, agricultural engineer, founder of the Société de Développement Agricole du Faso.

Production: Sayouba Traoré

Director: Ewa Piedel

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