The food consumption of the Congolese population is estimated at 15 million kilograms of live food products per day, said Aristide Ongone, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) country representative, during the workshop validation of the policy guideline for the reduction of post-harvest food losses in the food-deficit areas held last Monday in Kinshasa.
According to Aristide Ongone, these studies have shown that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) loses an average of 30% of total agricultural production, accounting for 6 million tons after harvest, while the general consumption of its population is 15 million kg per day.
He said African countries are committed to reducing food losses by 50 percent by 2025, to help reduce food losses and improve food security and income opportunities for smallholder farmers. in grain value chains, while noting that the project "integration of food loss reduction initiatives for smallholders in the deficit areas" has made it possible to strengthen the capacities of various partners involved in its implementation, in particular , producers, processors and managers of warehouses and decentralized services of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
"A awareness campaign was also organized at the level of households and farmers organizations of the targeted territories, on the good practices of reduction of the losses and management of the warehouses," said the country representative of FAO...
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