The Food Fair intended for the promotion and enhancement of local agricultural products, particularly from market gardening, ends this Saturday, September 3 in Brazzaville. Consumers went to meet producers who offered organic products for three days.
With our correspondent in Brazzaville, Loicia Martial
It was quite by chance that Ursel Ondongo discovered the Fair and he was attracted by the local products presented there. “ I bought an antiviral product made from moringa that treats coughs from infants to adults. It costs 3,000 CFA francs “, he says.
White coat like a doctor, Jemina Koye student in food technology at the Brazzaville Institute of Management (IMB) holds a stand. ” We came to exhibit our processed products. There, we have 100%, if not 1000% organic juices. We have made in Congo salad made locally. We have teas, candied ginger. And, we have an infant porridge just like an adult made from rice, corn and cowpea », Presents Jemina.
In a country where most foodstuffs are imported, the international NGO Essor initiated this fair for reasons put forward here by Dieudonné Badawi, its representative in Congo. ” For us, it is to correct at the base this import of agricultural products that come to us from outside, the sources of which we sometimes do not have a good grasp of. While at the local level we know where these products come from “, he explains.
The success of the event being, producers and consumers considered that the three days of exhibition and sale were insufficient.