Tag: Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: A range of local wild fruit juices

AgribusinessTV May 22, 2018 6115 No Comments

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Esther DIENDÉRÉ, a microbiologist, transforms wild fruits from Burkina Faso into juices of the brand “Glou”. Mrs. Diendéré got the idea to start an agro-processing enterprise at the time when she was teaching in high school. She started with a capital of 500,000 FCFA to engage in the processing of dairy product

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Testimonial: Alphonse Sie Palm, Burkina Faso

AgribusinessTV April 17, 2018 3463 No Comments

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Alphonse Sie PALM is a pig breeder in Burkina Faso. He tells us about what happened after his video was featured on Agribusiness TV!

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Burkina Faso: The vegetable producer of Boulmiougou

AgribusinessTV March 20, 2018 5674 No Comments

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Ali, former candidate of illegal migration to Europe, has reconverted to vegetable production in Boulmiougou, a region in the west of Ouagadougou. Ali’s father was into vegetable production, but he did not see it as a job. He wanted to migrate to Europe to have a better life. The idea of migrating came from the fact

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Burkina Faso: Tomato puree that changes lives

AgribusinessTV March 8, 2018 5613 No Comments

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At Donsin, a village situated some 30 km from Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, rural women are on the way to conquer the tomato puree market. The women’s group “Neerwaya” of Donsin exists since the 1990’s. At the time, their main activity was to dry tomato and other leafy vegetables. While it was

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Burkina Faso: M’YAABA, solar incubators made in Burkina

AgribusinessTV October 3, 2017 5974 9 Comments

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Eugène ROUAMBA is an electrician, and has a passion for poultry breeding. He uses his knowledge in electronic conception to develop a range of high-performing solar incubators of different capacities: 200, 400, 1000, 3000 eggs. “Very often, people take me for a crazy person because of the work that we are doing. Peo

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Burkina Faso : Catching up with Richard Mone

AgribusinessTV August 15, 2017 5940 1 Comment

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One year later, we went to visit Richard Moné on his farm in Loumbila, Burkina Faso. Richard is one of the first agricultural entrepreneur on whom Agribusiness TV did a video in 2016. “I think that as an entrepreneur, there is nothing more satisfying than an organisation such as Agribusiness TV comes to us to unders

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A model of contract farming

AgribusinessTV June 23, 2017 3663 No Comments

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In Gaoua, in the South-West of Burkina Faso, Nahondomo PALENFO cultivates dozens of hectares of various crops. This year, he has also ventured into the transformation of rice and has put in place the very first mini rice mill of the region. This industrial unit has given hope to rice producers, who now have buyers for

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At the farm “Ten chicks”

AgribusinessTV March 14, 2017 4087 No Comments

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Yombi OUÉDRAOGO is a legal expert. He started poultry farming with 10 chicks in 2011, today his farm has 3,000 birds. Livestock farming is a passion for Yombi. As a child, he always had chickens at his place. It’s this passion that encouraged him to start his own project. In the day, he works at the public service,

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Succeed where others lose hope

AgribusinessTV March 7, 2017 2086 No Comments

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Siriki OUATTARA left school in 3rd standard to venture into agriculture with 2 ha. Today, he cultivates over 100 ha. While most people leave the village to go to the city, Siriki did the opposite. He left the city to go to the village, where he got into agricultural production. Apart from vegetable and cereal productio

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Giving a second life to dead wood

AgribusinessTV January 25, 2017 4410 No Comments

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Soumaïla KANLA, 36 years, is a carpenter-designer. He transforms dead wood into softwood lumber and other objects such as plates, spoons, forks etc. Soumaïla has lived in France for seven years and it is there that he developed his passion to transform wood into different objects. His dream was to go back and settle

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