More than 29,000 beneficiaries in the Savannah region and the Kéran prefecture have benefited from multi-faceted support in the form of certified rice and soya seeds, market gardening tools, biopesticides and fertilisers as part of the implementation of the West African Food System Resilience Programme (PRSA) to significantly increase agricultural productivity, boost producers' incomes and ultimately ensure sustainable food and nutritional security in Togo.
This intervention by PRSA-Togo is in line with the many actions that the project is implementing as part of the Emergency Programme for the Savannah Region (PURS), designed to strengthen the resilience of the populations of this northern zone of Togo. After receiving the kits, the beneficiaries expressed their satisfaction. This is the case of LANKOME Tilate, a satisfied beneficiary from Tampialime in the prefecture of Tandjouaré.
"My name is LANKOME Tilate and I come from the village of Tampialime in the prefecture of Tandjouaré. Our cooperative has been identified to benefit from the improved rice and soya seeds that the FSRP project has acquired for us. I sit on our cooperative's management committee as treasurer. Our organisation is a ZAAP* cooperative. Before, we used to use the old crops as seeds, but this time, with the certified seeds that the FSRP has bought for us, we are very happy. We're not going to use the old seeds any more. We're going to use these seeds in the firm belief that their yield will be better. This will enable us to meet the needs of our husbands and children, so that we can have a peaceful family environment. We can therefore say that this support heralds a better tomorrow for us women farmers. We would like to thank the Togolese government, specifically the Minister of Agriculture and the FSRP project, for this support, which will have a positive impact on our harvest and benefit the whole family," she says, happy and optimistic.
