Togo: Youth employment director pleads for extension of PAIEJ-SP to transport, logistics and mechanization

Agriculture
Wednesday, 05 December 2018 12:23
Togo: Youth employment director pleads for extension of PAIEJ-SP to transport, logistics and mechanization

(Togo First) - In Togo, the youth employment director, Anala Telata, pled for the extension of the Youth Insertion and Employment Support Project in Promising Sectors (PAIEJ-SP) to transports, logistics and mechanization.

Doing so will, according to Telata, enable professional insertion of some youths and optimize conditions needed to achieve the goals of PAIEJ-SP in regards to job creation.

Actually, transport, logistics and agricultural mechanization are the missing links in various chains of value. Though developing these links will require massive investments, this would surely boost youth employment in the country. Additionally, it will help reduce charges for chains of value actors, as they are actually forced to order products and access services far from their activity sites, tens and even hundreds kilometers far.

Besides this challenge, actors of value chains, agricultural producers especially, complain about a high cost of transportation. This was during missions to assess the PAIEJ-SP.

At Gaougblé, a community of Eastern Mono, 48km from Atakpamé, Palouki Yeneke, a farmer who produces maize for the NSCPA, had to rent a tractor from Kara (about 500 km away) to clear its 10-ha land (PANAPASSA). This cost the farmer a lot. Integrating transport, logistics and agricultural mechanization to the PAIEJ-SP would help tackle this issue.

Séna Akoda

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