C2D PCP-ACEFA empowers GIC FERMAC with FCFA 6m for poultry farming
By Doh James Sonkey
The poultry farm owned by GIC FERMAC and situated at Nkolbong-Massoubou at PK21 in the Yabassi District, Littoral region, has been gifted for meeting the objectives of the programme and even going beyond after three years of exploitation. From the 47 600 chickens projected, the farm produced 50 809 chickens that were sold at FCFA 123 842 550 recording a 107%.
The owner of GIC FERMAC, Tessa Evelyne told reporters last June 4, 2024 that “when the programme came to Cameroon, I heard about it and went and registered as Firm and Agriculture of Cameroon, GIC FERMAC. We are at 8 persons made up of 5 women and 3 men. We created and legalised this GIC in 2014 and it was in 2019 that we benefitted from this programme from the French Debt Relief and Development Contract, C2D.”
She narrated that “after working for three straight years, I finally got my quietus this year. C2D-ACEFA brought me work, I don’t work with stress any longer because I leave my house in the morning to my poultry farm and I return home after finishing the day’s work. I feed my children and all the other members of this GIC are also benefitting from it as well, eat chicken in their houses etc. In short, C2D-ACEFA enabled me not be unemployed in my country. We are respecting our terms of reference in our contract that is, rearing 3000 chickens 6 times a year.”
Tessa Evelyne explained that, “when chicks are scarce in the market, they suffer a lot and we are delayed in the supply chain of these chicks. But when there is abundance outside, the prices of chickens witness a slight drop from FCFA 3000 to FCFA 2800 for instance.”
She said “the first difficulty is that the raw materials are not in abundance in Cameroon. There is not enough farms for maize, soja etc, making it very difficult for some of us especially when there are enough chicks in the market. This is especially when farmers understand that there are many chicks outside, they buy and keep making chickens to be many outside. Chickens that we could send out in two weeks, we start sending them out in three weeks while feeding them.”
When she received FCFA 6 million from C2D-ACEFA, she constructed a poultry farm, a heating place, a room for workers and a store.