Togo: Minister of trade launches in Kara a program to boost cashew and shea value chains

Agriculture

Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:11

Togo: Minister of trade launches in Kara a program to boost cashew and shea value chains

(Togo First) - Togo’s minister of trade and private sector promotion, Bernadette Essossimna Legzim-Balouki, recently launched in Kara (in the northern region) a project to boost cashew and shea nuts sales and make them more sustainable (PRODAK).

Developed by the ministry of trade, the project will improve the “quality of shea and cashew nuts, and their derivatives, making the products, which have a great economic potential, more competitive and profitable in regards to exports”. The launch ceremony took place September 7, in the presence of the regional director for agriculture, who represented the minister of agriculture, husbandry and fishery.

“This ceremony marks, for the country’s various economic operators, the start of a new, huge project which aims at making cashew and shea nuts, as well as their derivatives, more competitive, by improving related processing and commercialization conditions, in the local, regional and international markets,” said Ouro-Koura Agadazi, minister of agriculture.

The project, let it be emphasized, falls under the national development plan’s second axis. The latter aims to create in the country, agricultural, manufacturing and mining processing poles.

About 120 people, operating in the cashew and shea sectors, partners and actors of both private and public sectors were present at the ceremony.

Séna Akoda

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