The DRC wants to reduce its food imports

The project, with a total cost of $311.6 million, will increase the production of rice, cassava, corn and soybeans, and contribute to the country's food self-sufficiency for these main commodities. This will significantly reduce the country's massive food imports ($3 billion in 2023, or 19% of the national budget), as well as its vulnerability to exogenous shocks, including climate change and armed conflicts. It aims to reconstitute the seed capital of the rice, cassava, corn and soybean value chains, to sustainably improve yields and to structure and facilitate access for actors in these value chains to markets and appropriate financing. In addition, this project will make inputs available to producers, on credit, at the start of the agricultural season, repayable at harvest, in order to build up working capital to sustainably facilitate access to inputs and product pre-treatment equipment. agricultural activities ...