On 19 December 2024, in Akparè in the Ogou prefecture, the Governor of the Plateaux region, General Dadja MAGANAWE, on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Village Hydraulics and Rural Development, symbolically handed over market gardening tool kits to market garden producers.
This symbolic handover marks the start of the distribution of input kits and small agricultural equipment acquired by the FSRP for the benefit of 5,500 market garden producers (including 2,475 women) identified in the country's six agricultural regions. Each producer will receive a kit comprising seeds (onion, tomato and chilli), a sprayer, 2 watering cans, a hoe, a wheelbarrow, biopesticide, biofertiliser, a shovel, a rake, a hoe and a daba. There are also plans to provide motor-driven pumps for the dynamic solidarity groups, to enable them to obtain a better supply of water to meet the needs of their crops.
This action by the FSRP Togo is part of the additional financing of the GAFSP and aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable agricultural populations by improving their productivity through the use of quality tools and inputs. In his opening remarks, the FSRP Togo's delegate operational coordinator said: "This support from the FSRP is a strong commitment from the highest authorities to support and strengthen the agricultural sector as a whole, and by extension, to help improve the living conditions of the population. This is therefore the ideal time to encourage you to make good use of this support, which should enable you to be self-sufficient from now on".
The authorities present in turn urged the beneficiaries to make good use of their kits. The handover was followed by a visit to a market garden production site in Nangbéto.
