Filière karité : Le digital peut améliorer les rendements, selon une étude du Fonds d’équipement des Nations unies

Dear fellows burkinabé,
After reading this article, I believe that you are missing the entire points on what to do in Agribusiness, and you don’t know your priority either. Today, in BURKINA Faso, the sector of agriculture and agro -forestry is not a matter of digital studies. The real problem is that we listening to people who either don’t want us to develop our agriculture or they are ignorant about the reality of our country. Once again, You burkinabé, You need to prioritize your needs. First and foremost, has anyone ever financed a grower or a plant breeder to do research on Karite tree on how to improve yield ? Has any NGO ever financed any plant breeder on setting up a research on finding a varieties of karity that can be commercially viable and cultivated in masses ? Have you ever heard any NGO involved in setting up a karite farm just like the cashews farm ? The NGO or any of your so called technical financial officers or partners will never ever mention this idea to you. The only thing they do is to distract you with something that collects your money and your information. Why anyone who doesn’t have a karite farm will need to know about digital to sell karite nut ? Please guys stop. You are wasting your time with all these non-sense coming from Europe. The biggest issue is that the European will not help you develop the cultivation of tree nuts such as karite because the karite nut can directly compete with the cacao produce from Ivory Coast. Karite tree last for many years and if You know how breed and commercialize as large scale agribusiness, it will affect the cacao market. In addition, karite tree doesn’t need lots of water. It is a sustainable crops. And yet your so called partners are not helping you to improve its cultivation. The reason i am saying is because I have done many researches on plants and agribusiness. Breeding karite to a commercial level can be done but it will take a little time. We have a big opportunity in burkina faso as far as agriculture and agribusiness however, we easily get distracted with all the non-sense coming from people who are not agronomist, pants scientists or botanist. The majority of people that are giving their opinions about agriculture has no idea what they are talking about. They just want to have a job or be part of a project or sell their platform. Digital is not what we need now in the fields or on the farm. We only need digital for the time being to store, process and package our crops. We need to improve our yield by improving and control our agriculture inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, and the integrated pests management). We need to train farmers in IPM and how to mix pesticides in safe ways while protecting the environment. We need to know the types of pesticides and fertilizers that are coming in from others countries. We need to set up an entire control system to record all pesticides and fertilizers use by farmers in the nation. They are more things we can do to improve our foods supply and raise the income of farmers and cut down unemployment in burkina faso. We need technicians not bureaucratic. I am a technician that ’s why I understand these issues just like any other technicians do. Stop distracting people with all the digital in farming you are not helping the farmers instead, you are taking their money and charging them fees for their transaction on your platform.
If you need to more on what I am saying, you can post me a message on faso.net.
Leiw