Central Africa’s Livestock : 2023 Development Budget Adopted

The Economic Commission on Cattle, Meat and Fish Resources in CEMAC (CEBEVIRHA) has adopted more than FCFA 1, 8 billion in budget for 2023. A budgetary session that brought together representatives from all member States took place in Douala on Saturday October 8, 2022. In his opening speech, Jean Paul Ondoua Zang, Director of the Department for the Development of Animal production and industries of Cameroon’s Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal industries, who is CEBEVIRHA's Board Chair, attributed the 28.34 per cent increase in the 2023 budget from that of 2022 to their desire to promote the use of cattle passports to facilitate intra-community trade in cattle, and to strengthen collaboration with the FAO and the AfDB. Furthermore, FCFA 300 million will be used to continue the project called “Promotion of continental fishing and aquaculture in the CEMAC zone” (PPCA-II/CEMAC), which has a strong direct and positive impact on the actors of the fishing and aquaculture value chains of the community, suspended in 2022. 
Four activities were retained: the control of cross-border diseases affecting livestock, the control of emerging fish diseases in the CEMAC zone, the monitoring of the commitments of technical and financial partners for the financing of projects of Commission's 2015-2025 strategic plan, and trade promotion and statistical production activities in the livestock, fisheries and aquaculture sectors in central Africa. Faced with the current international environment and socio-economic context of the sub-region, the average execution rate stood at only 16.7...