L-R: Adolphine Muley Byayuwa (second from left), Provincial Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, His Eminence François Xavier Maroy, Archbishop of South Kivu, DG Nteranya Sanginga, OIC Chris Okafor. [bulletin.iita.org]
Madame
Adolphine Muley Byayuwa, fondatrice de
de l'Union pour l'Emancipation de la Femme Autochtone (UEFA), ministre
provinciale du Sud-Kivu en charge de l’Agriculture, de l’environnement et du
développement rural, députée.
L-R: Adolphine Muley Byayuwa (second from left), Provincial Minister of Agriculture
and Rural Development, His Eminence François Xavier Maroy, Archbishop of South
Kivu, DG Nteranya Sanginga, OIC Chris Okafor. [bulletin.iita.org]
Bernard Vanlauwe takes the Provincial Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, L and and Rural
Development, South Kivu, DR Congo, Madam Adolphine Muley Byayuwa on a tour of
the Nodumax facility in Ibadan.
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The
Provincial Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, L and and Rural Development, South
Kivu, DR Congo, Madam Adolphine Muley Byayuwa has expressed optimism that
technologies developed by IITA can help transform agriculture in Africa. She
made this remark during her visit to IITA, Ibadan, to participate in the Systems
Marketplace event organized by the Humidtropics in collaboration with the Forum
for Agricultural Research for Africa.
The event, held 15-17 November at IITA, Ibadan,
was attended by more than 100 participants from the CGIAR
Centers and national agricultural research programs. The three-day event
provided space for learning and sharing of ideas among CGIAR Research Programs
(CRPs) on how systems perspectives and approaches have been considered going
into the 2nd phase of CRPs as well as to share experiences and legacy products
arising from research of Humidtropics and others CRPs.
During her stay, Muley took time to visit
IITA’s Business Incubation Platform (BIP), Facility Management Services (FMS),
Postharvest Utilization Unit, and fish ponds, and interacted with the IITA Youth
Agripreneurs (IYA) that is engaging young people in agribusinesses.
She also visited a community cassava processing factory in Moniya owned by the
community which processes 1.5 tons of garri per week and another one that is
privately owned, Niji Farms. This processing plant owns a 3000-acre integrated
cassava farm located in Ilero, Oyo State, Nigeria. It processes about 15 tons of
fresh cassava roots per day.
Excited with what she saw, Muley said that DR
Congo has a lot to learn from both IITA and Nigeria in terms of agribusiness and
agricultural development. “I am excited about what is happening here because it
holds promise for agricultural transformation in Africa,” she
said.
The Minister said she will work with IITA to
help transform agriculture in DR Congo. She also commended the Humidtropics for
the work done on systems research in South Kivu Province in Eastern DR
Congo.