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Vivrier: Abidjan and Lisbon want to strengthen their agricultural cooperation
The Minister Delegate in charge of Food Production, Bernard Kini Comoé, received in audience Francisco-Xavier Graça Moura de Meireles, Portuguese Ambassador to Ivory Coast. The meeting focused on strengthening agricultural cooperation, with an emphasis on the food sector. Lisbon wishes to put its expertise in the development of artificial lakes at the service of Abidjan. These water reservoirs are used for market gardening and rice growing. They respond to a major challenge for the food sectors (water control in the face of climatic hazards). Bernard Kini Comoé had also defended this priority in September in Rome, with the FAO. The two parties also discussed the marketing of food products.Portuguese know-how in the management of wholesale markets could contribute to modernizing distribution circuits, an area where the Observatory for the Marketing of Food Products (OCPV) intervenes. This exchange is part of a broader dynamic. On October 8, the Portuguese diplomat had already reaffirmed, before Vice-President Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, his country's desire to invest in agricultural production and processing, by focusing on irrigated agriculture and agri-food logistics. For Abidjan, this cooperation promises to consolidate food sovereignty.
