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Côte d’Ivoire: ICRC provides nearly 5,000 families with seed and fertilizer
15-07-2007 News Release
The ICRC has just finished delivering rice seed, maize seed and fertilizer to 3,696 households in 122 villages in the departments of Korhogo, Ferkéssédougou, Boundiali and Bouna. The organization has been supporting 11 associations and 3 agricultural cooperatives as part of the same project.
The ICRC delegation in Abidjan issued the following press release on 15 July 2007
With the support of volunteers from the Red Cross Society of Côte d’Ivoire and an NGO, Animation rurale de Korhogo, the ICRC supplied 30,000 people with 42 tonnes of maize seed, 38 tonnes of upland rice seed, 18 tonnes of lowland rice seed, 370 tonnes of NPK fertilizer and 185 tonnes of urea.
At the end of April, the ICRC distributed 95 tonnes of maize, rice and yam seed to 1,274 households (11,083 individuals) in the region of Satama Soukoura, east of Bouaké.
The aim is to ensure a degree of food security for people living in rural areas that the ICRC has identified as particularly vulnerable. In 2006, the ICRC ran a similar programme in other regions.
As always, before launching the programme the ICRC carried out an analysis. This revealed that a number of areas were particularly vulnerable. It also highlighted the general impoverishment of the population. Factors include problems in the agricultural sector on account of the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, i.e. isolation, a fall in prices and the disappearance of State support. The lack of rainfall has also hit agricultural production.
The ICRC will be providing technical support to farmers until the harvest is in.
For further information, please contact:
Monica Zanarelli, ICRC Abidjan, tel: + (225) 22 40 00 70 / 07 44 20 69
Antoine Grand, ICRC Bouaké, tel: + (225) 31 65 76 08 / 07 38 95 28
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