Togo: Lacs 1 and Lacs 2’s Fishmongers and Market Gardeners Get Boost from World Bank

Agriculture

Tuesday, 20 May 2025 11:20

Togo: Lacs 1 and Lacs 2’s Fishmongers and Market Gardeners Get Boost from World Bank

(Togo First) - Last week, the World Bank handed out equipment to fishmongers and market gardeners in Togo’s Lacs 1 and Lacs 3 communes. The gear aims to strengthen their work along the vulnerable Gbodjomé-Sanvi-Kondji coastal stretch, which faces serious marine erosion.

The donation, valued at CFA26 million, was provided to 30 groups of fishmongers and 40 groups of market gardeners. The equipment includes electric pressure sprayers with rechargeable batteries, protective suits, coolers, freezers, trestles, gloves, headgear, and bibs.

Adou Rahim Assimiou, the project’s national coordinator, said the gear helps coastal communities whose fishing and gardening livelihoods suffer from coastal protection construction. The project seeks to reinforce their resilience by upgrading production conditions in areas transformed by protective infrastructure development.

This support is part of the World Bank’s West African Coastal Zone Resilience Investment Project (WACA ResIP), which has a social sub-project budget of CFA1.5 billion. The project will soon provide outboard motor dugout canoes, fishing nets, and life jackets to local fishermen.

The initiative also plans to build community facilities like latrines, boreholes, and Chorkor-type ovens. Training sessions started in February 2025 for market gardeners in Lacs 1 and Lacs 3 and will continue.

This article was initially published in French by Esaïe Edoh

Edited in English by Ange Jason Quenum

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