Unlocking the Flavors of Tradition: La Maison de l’Entreprise Champions Agri-Food Artisans
SIAO 2024. Agri-food artisans are very present. They are actively processing local products. In addition to quality, aesthetics are added to the products on display. They are well organized with the kind support of partners such as the Maison de l’Entreprise du Burkina Faso (MEBF). The beneficiaries of the PRECA project and Burkina textile incubators impress with the quality of their products.
Opening on Friday October 25, 2024, the 17th edition of the Ouagadougou International Crafts Fair (SIAO) is in full swing. In the Arc-en-ciel pavilion, a variety of exhibitors occupy the stands. The art of seduction through knowledge. The artisans of the food industry are there. It introduces products based on cereals, fruits, vegetables, in other ways. Because here, the transformation is celebrated. A spectator walk takes us to the stands.
Among many others, Mrs Somé née Zouré Myriam excels in the processing of agri-food products: cereals, fruits, vegetables. With its Albio processing unit located in Nioko 1 in Saaba community, it masterfully transforms local fruits including tamarind, monkey bread (baobab fruit), liana, mango, ginger, cashew, etc. The fine products are fruit juice, dried fruit and vegetables, syrup, jam, vegetable oil, etc.
Madame Somé née Zouré Myriam displays organic products
Above all, there is great innovation with mango. Madame Somé transforms the mango into syrup and jam to ensure its availability out of season. Moreover, it flirts with the quality method. ” All our products are natural here. We do not use chemicals », she emphasizes to us.
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Faso Roumdé enticing with tomato puree
Faso Roumdé, a processing unit for non-wood agri-food and forestry products, came from Kongoussi with complete resilience to introduce processed cereals and fruits. Cereal biscuits, potatoes, fruit juice, tomato puree, all with a dose of aesthetics.
The processing of tomatoes takes a prominent place. This successful transformation of tomatoes into tomato puree makes the reputation of this structure run by 21 women from Kongoussi in Bam.
Madame Ouédraogo Awa, the manager, is doing good business at SIAO. These purees sell well. ” It is of good quality. We do not add anything. We only do this with tomatoes. No product, no colouring, no preservative. It works well,” she emphasizes.
Parboiled rice from Bama
Next to her is the stall of Salamata Sawadogo, who came from the Kou valley with the new rice for the 2024 Bama season (UCRRB). Thanks to the support of the Maison de l’Entreprise through PRECA, tons are transformed a day. So Salamata Sawadogo came to meet the buyers.
Rice demonized by Bama women
« Thanks to PRECA we came here. PRECA came with us to come and show our rice. People didn’t know you could easily get Bama rice. There are people interested in it and we hope to be able to sell well. PRECA helped us with the equipment for smoking rice, they helped us with storage and they paid for the stand for us at SIAO,” he greets.
Sour sincere message is the following: “We have had enough rain this year, thank God the harvest is good. Bama rice is quality. But people don’t know. We do not use chemicals. The rice that people import contains chemicals. It is an illness. Let’s go back to eating our rice. We raise our voices to call on our Burkinabè brothers and sisters to return and eat Faso rice.”.
Technology for agri-food processing
Service providers are not on the sidelines. Sougr-nooma Institute active in designing agricultural processing equipment is at the SIAO fair. This structure supports agri-food processing with technology and innovation. Local expertise is expressed through machines for processing local products.
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Agri-food processing in progress in Burkina Faso. This Tuesday, October 29, 2024, he is a happy partner who admires the achievements of the artisans of the agro-food processing beneficiaries Window 2 of the PRECA project.
Also the proud candle for Burkina textile incubators. Ismaël Sawadogo, Director of Marketing and Consulting Support at Maison de l’entreprise; the head of the window 2 mission of the agricultural resilience and competitiveness project (PReCA) was at the SIAO with a delegation.
The delegation from Maison de l’Entreprise visits PRECa beneficiaries
These exhibitors who were visited are beneficiaries of the Agricultural Resilience and Competitiveness Project (PReCA), an integrated project to support agricultural production implemented over the period 2020-2025. The Project intervenes mainly in the areas of hydro-agricultural development, support for production, agricultural entrepreneurship and the opening of large production areas.
Ismael sawadogo appreciates the products of Burkina textile hatcheries
PRECA has supported more than 500 beneficiaries in terms of investment and working capital to enable. ” Regarding the SIAO, we saw the need to support beneficiaries who are in the agri-food sector. They transform the produce of our brave farmers so it is good to support them to come and exhibit at the SIAO. This allows us to realize the creativity of the innovation they have and it allows us to realize the efforts these promoters make to respect international standards and adhere to customer needs. », written by Ismaël Sawadogo.
In addition to PRECA beneficiaries, there are textile incubators from Burkina Faso. Indeed, the Maison de l’entreprise is responsible for operating the Burkina textile incubator. The beneficiaries of this program are players in cotton and textile processing.
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They benefited, among other things, from capacity building sessions, training in the field of entrepreneurship, managing and managing their business, etc. The brood Madame KY née Ouédraogo Ivette specializes in dyeing and weaving. She is exhibiting Faso Danfani at the SIAO.
« We came to this big fair to show our knowledge and prove to our incubator that they can trust us ” . Like, she 11 other processors have benefited from Burkina textiles. The result is attractive.
Madame KY Ouédraogo Ivette was born
The company house supported the beneficiaries of both projects with stands set up in the Rainbow Pavilion. However, the MEBF institutional stand is set up in the Soleil Levant pavilion of the SIAO. In line with its mission, services related to capacity building and business development are offered on site.
Akim KY
Burkina 24