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Cameroon: Agro-Pastoral Show to Be Re-Launched 2009
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The Post (Buea)
21 April 2008
Posted to the web 21 April 2008
Chris Mbunwe
The Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture, Jean Nkuete, has announced the re-birth of the Agro-pastoral Show in 2009 to be hosted by Ebolowa.
Nkuete made the announcement while launching the farming season at the Commercial Avenue, Bamenda, Northwest Province, on Friday, April 18. At the occasion, the Minister handed cash prizes of FCFA 70 million to winners of this year's Mini-agric shows that were organised in the seven provinces of Southern part of Cameroon whose delegates were present.
Farmers received sprayers, grinding mills, fertilizers and a host of farm tools aimed at increasing agricultural production and productivity.Farmers through their representative, Emmanuel Kum, told the Minister to mechanise agriculture and ensure constant flow of material as well as financial assistance to farmers.
The farmers thanked the Minister for coming to launch the farming season that was considered too late because most farmers had long completed tilling and planting.
Meanwhile, the Minister, while condemning the violence during the recent nationwide upheaval, placed the February upheavals on the doors steps of the opposition, especially the SDF.
Minister Nkuete's declarations at the Bamenda Congress hall during a working session made him recall the dark days of the marquis and warned the opposition not to drag Cameroonians into the days of the marquis.
To him, the opposition, all these years, have engaged in sterile politics instead of investing in agriculture.Minister Nkuete said it took billions to rebuild what was destroyed during the marquiser war. "During this period the Bamilekes learned a bitter lesson that war is not the best option in any given circumstances."
He said in Bangui-Central Africa Republic, where he served as a diplomat, that country witnessed seven coup plots in seven years and this brought a lot of untold hardship on the people.
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Nkuete said civil strife will greatly affect agricultural development and the consequences will be famine. As such, he admonished the opposition to use agriculture to consolidate peace by getting themselves involved in agricultural activities rather than send children to the street for what he termed "senseless demonstration and destruction of property."
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