Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The Cameroonian minister of scientific research and Innovation, Mrs Madeleine Tchuinté, and the director of the Institute for Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Noé Woin, signed on Tuesday, in Yaoundé, six financing conventions.
The agreements totaling 1.28 billion CFAF will finance six agronomy research projects that will be implemented over a three-year period (2014-2016).
They will enable IRAD to implement from March of this year, research projects on six key sectors for Cameroonian agriculture – cassava, potato, rice, horticulture, leguminous plants and poultry farming.
The conventions complete those signed on December 23, 2013, for plantain, banana, sorghum, the management of ecosystems and forest agro-forestry systems.
