{"id":5407,"date":"2017-03-23T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:07:44","slug":"burundi-food-industry-needs-to-be-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-food-industry-needs-to-be-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi food industry needs to be supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Development Action and Regional Integration-ADIR Burundi has organized this 23 March a meeting with all stakeholders in the development of the agro-business. The climate and trade aspects of food security in Burundi as well as the promotion of food industry were the main focus in the meeting. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5408\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5408\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN7118-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"S\u00e9verin Sindayikengera, Director of CNTA: \u201cThere is a need to work in synergy\u201d.\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN7118-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN7118-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN7118.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">S\u00e9verin Sindayikengera, Director of CNTA: \u201cThere is a need to work in synergy\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nicolas Mazina in charge of Enterprise production, creation and innovation in Safina Industry Company which transforms flour and juice, says they hardly find raw materials to transform the agricultural products. \u201cThey are rare, expensive and the purchasing power is low and this causes the shortage of clients\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mazina says the transformation of agricultural products requires more innovations which need big machines. \u201cIt is not always easy to buy such machines if we do not have any support\u201d, he says. For him, there is a need to identify the companies which are able to transform agricultural products so that sponsors and donors may easily support them.<\/p>\n<p>The same view is shared by the National Food-Processing Center-CNTA. S\u00e9verin Sindayikengera, Director of CNTA says the majority of Burundian companies involved in agro-business are faced with various challenges including the lack of raw materials, electric power, funds, quality control and packaging. \u201cThere is a need for producers and traders to work in synergy without ignoring the issue of climate change\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Godefroid Manirankunda, Director of ADIR Burundi says the meeting has been organized to promote Agriculture, Climate and Trade Linkages within East African community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to know if there are links and incoherencies between policies and laws in order to promote industrial agriculture and move towards the EAC harmonization in agro-business within the community\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Manirankunda says trade policies should facilitate the access to inputs, markets for products already transformed and modern technologies despite the climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development Action and Regional Integration-ADIR Burundi has organized this 23 March a meeting with all stakeholders in the development of the agro-business. The climate and trade aspects of food security in Burundi as well as the promotion of food industry were the main focus in the meeting. Nicolas Mazina in charge of Enterprise production, creation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[1050,1049],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}