T
he Frontier Agro-Industrial
Programme (FAINAP),
conceived and launched
to advance the industrialization of Donga Mantung Division
has taken root. Project area inhabitants jumped for joy recently
when the Secretary of State in the
Ministry of Mines, industries and
Technological Development, Dr.
Fuh Calistus Gentry who doubles
as the Founder/President of FAINAP offered huge equipment to
advance project activities. It was
time for farmers to start counting
blessings with the offer of the
equipment worth about FCFA 40
million. In effect, Dr Fuh Calistus
Gentry was in Nkambe with four
motorcycles and a multi- planter
tractor to take industrialization
forward in the very agricultural
productive basins of Donga Mantung Division. It was a moment
for farmers to sing and dance
with the FAINAP Programme as
a blessing that has come to stay.
The visiting Secretary of State,
inspired the population to embrace the programme which is a
corridor towards development.
The motorcycles will facilitate the
movement of farmer representatives to demonstration farms
for proper follow up of activities.
It emerged from an evaluation
meeting during the Nkambe event
that the fruits of the programme
are already visible. Some farmers
were on record with amazing positive yields to show for maize
seedlings imported from South
Africa. It is all about a double in
tonnage of maize harvested.
Impressed by the enthusiasm
and the promising project, the
Secretary of State, Dr. Fuh Calistus
Gentry announced the imminent
construction of a warehouse in the
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