Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry
, FAINAP President Address Stakeholders
Under the advocacy of the Frontier Agro-Industrial Project
with acronym FAINAP aimed at encouraging high production to enable the
proccessing project sustained, the Livestock and Fisheries Development LIFIDEP
shall set up a milk processing plant worth FCFA 700 Million at the industrial
zone located between Nkambe and Binshua by 2017. Still under LIFIDEP
project a maize storage facility shall
be constructed at FCFA 30 Million at Nguu, construct classrooms and grade
roads. LIFIDEP has also put at the disposal of farmers FCFA 750 Million as
small microcredit at 5% interest rate though the main funding body Islamic
Development Bank IDB had insisted that this loan should be interest free
following the sharia law.
This huge package was made public to the population of Donga
Mantung Division during the launching of the third phase of the FAINAP project
which is the cattle component after the maize and palm oil components which
have already taken roots with the setting up of maize seed farms and palm
nuseries by the local farmers. According to the Founder and President of
FAINAP, Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry who was not only speaking in his capacity as
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological
Development but as a son of the soil whose Division has been lagging behind
though rich in natural resources, said his interest is that of inciting local
production in to an industrial scale in order to feed the transformatory plants
that would be set up in the industrial zone in Nkambe. That is the reason why
the various sectors are involved to give the technical knowhow in order to realize
the big dream of making people of his Division live a fulfilled lives both in
wealth and health.
Speaking in Nkambe on November 2, 2016, FAINAP President
reminded the people that Donga Mantung Division is the only area in the country
where tea is cultivated in cold climate, oil Palms are planted in hot climate
and maize is also cultivated and at the same time has one of the best climate
where cattle is reared. FAINAP was concieved to boost and increase production and make use of the ready
huge market in the area and Donga Mantung happens to have over 4540 square
Kilometers of land good enough to carry out such a project. This project of
setting up processing plant in Nkambe would reverse to trend of transporting
raw materials to the coastal towns. Inorder
to sustain the processing plants, there is need for storage facilities that
would be constructed in all five Sub Division depending on the type of crop
production. Taking corn alone, Dr. Fuh said it can be transformed in to more
than 30 different products and MINMIDT has elaborated on what corn can be
transformed in to thus Flour,starch, vegetable oil and animal feed. To him the
greatest lie he was ever told was that cocoa can only be transformed in to
chocolate which today the philosophy has changed. Cocoa farmers take years to
harvest but maize takes averagely three months from planting to harvest which
makes it faster to make money by producing more. Guinness brewing company is in
search of huge quantity of corn for its plant.
FAINAP President announced to potential farmers of oil palm
that already 50000 seedings would be available for distribution at subsidized
prices by 2017 while 100000 same seeds would be available by 2018 while two oil
palm processing plants are underway given the high demand for palm oil from
Nigeria. He called on the Traditional rulers to make available land for the
cultivation given that FAINAP is prospecting to have at its disposal 50000
hectares in five years.
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