BURUNDI - AGRICULTURE:  - ITALY THINKS A US, THANK YOU PRODI ! - AGNEWS - DAM - NY, 29/05/2006

Burundi thinks of the revival of its primary sector as government NKURUNZIZA had announced it in its priority action plan.  Agriculture is the field which provides the most employment to Burundi. 

The project in question will be carried out in co-operation directly with our neighbors and friends of RWANDA and UGANDA, for a value of 3 million dollars.   The Italian government which finances this project has as an ambition to improve food safety in Easthern Africa.

The socio-economic criminalisation of Regime MICOMBERO-BAGAZA- BUYOYA ( R_MBB ) in the policy of the agricultural development is at the base of the ruin of our country agriculture which had makes a success of a remarkable capacity of adaptation: The “periodic famines” of the colonial time and précoloniale had become that bad memories.    

From the points of view economic, agricultural ecology and techniques, “institutional” constraints ( structures of popularizations, administrative payments…) in the fields of the coffee, tea, and cotton pushed the culture of its products, often in an authoritative way. The taking away of added value carried out by the R_MBB on the work of the farming community with  the cultures of remuneration were excessive.  The other defect of these constraints, they allowed the tradesmen (market controlled by the notable ones of the R_MBB), better organized, to swindle the peasants to the weighing of their deliveries.   The incomes being too weak, the prospects was not very beneficial. There, the deconsideration of the Burundian peasants is…

                                                                                    AGNEWS 2006