Food production: Madagascar supports producers

The implementation of the project will enable more than 126,000 producers, including 30% of women, to benefit from fertilizers, to increase production and productivity in four agricultural varieties: rice, wheat, soybeans and peanuts. This will also increase the cultivated areas to more than 47,500 hectares. "This strengthening of food security will contribute to coping with the harmful effects of the war between Ukraine and Russia, which has led to a surge in food products on the market", declared the Malagasy Minister of Agriculture and Agriculture. 'Livestock, Harifidy Janset Ramilison. Financed by the African Development Fund and the Transition Support Facility for an overall cost of approximately $20 million, this project aims to increase the production of cereals and oilseeds in Madagascar to cope with the surge in prices of basic necessities, following the successive crises of the Covid-19 ...