Our activities in August were focused on the distribution of 3,000 chickens for the broiler breeding part of our project, in three villages, namely, Ekissiho, Badoukro and Aboude-dadie. The first two villages that received their allotments of chicks (1,000 per village) have sold most of them.
For the Maraicher program, to establish okra in 6 villages, the okra is now in full harvest, and the okra is selling well. Construction has also started on greenhouses in three of the villages for the cultivation of pepper, tomato etc.
The agroforestry palm plants we distributed are developing well, and the beneficiaries are now actually cleaning the planted plots.
Concerning the ICA West Africa sub regional conference. We have shifted the date to September 16, 2015. We did this for administrative reasons and also to invited His Excellency the Ambassador of Japan to come and preside over the opening ceremony. We had a meeting with the First Secretary on August 25 and were informed that the Ambassador would preside at the ceremony and also visit the activities that we carry out with the financial resources of the Japanese taxpayers. We have also sent invitations to the delegates of countries who want to participate in the conference at the national level and we continue to request the authorities to provide good coverage for our ceremony.
We will record the arrival of participants from ICA Japan next week as their presence will enable us to provide community training and to project a midterm survey in the villages.
This post was first published in the Global Buzz, September 2015.