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Cameroon sets conditional grants for piggeries
Pig farmers in Cameroons' East Province have been
requested to raise at least FCFA 2 million (€3,000) as a precondition for
benefiting from government grants.
This was stipulated by the Coordinator of the National
Pig Development Programme, Dr. Marcel Casmir Ndongo Kounou. During a recent
visit Bertoua he advised leaders of pig farming organisations on how to manage
such organisations and on the conditions and procedures for receiving government
grants.
The East Province has been allocated FCFA 7 million as grants to
pig farmers, but the grants are only allocated to people who first raise funds
which “prove that they are serious in what they're doingâ€. Ndongo stated that to
obtain the grant farmers should “show evidence that they can manage in-coming
funds transparently and put at the disposal of the confederation, 80
piglets".
The National Pig Development Programme is financed with funds
from HIPC-I under the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal
Industries.
With a budget of FCFA 6 billion, the programme envisages stepping
up Cameroon's pig production from 218,000 pigs in 2007 to 400.000 pigs this year
to meet with the rising demand for pork.
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