PRESS RELEASE - THE PROMOTION OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IN CAMEROON
On Monday 21st December, 2009, the President of SESURUDEV Association, Mr Aloysius Njie AJUA was the guest of the live programme called "Morning Safari" in the state-owned National CRTV Radio network. It is one of the most informative, most interesting and most useful programmes in the entire electronic media landscape in Cameroon apart from the CRTV national news or television programmes.
This public outing is squarely part of the grand project of SESURUDEV to substantially encourage both poultry farming and mixed farming in Cameroon for the targeted impact of millions of Cameroonians.
During the radio talk-show, the President of SESURUDEV who is also the author of a practical manual unprecedented in Cameroon entitled "PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION AND MARKETING", made the following important declarations:-
- Gave credit to the Cameroonian NGO called ACDIC for the successful campaign they organised, five years ago, against the dumping into the country of frozen chicken meat joints of doubtful quality;
- Praised the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries of Cameroon for successfully taking vigilant and effective measures in preventing the introduction of bird flu into the country. The success of the measures has consequently favoured the expansion of the poultry industry in Cameroon notwithstanding the very high prices of corn !!
- Urged that since we are now in a global village, cameroonians should endeavour to produce poultry in a very competitive manner in such a way that the products can be sold out at cheap prices to the common man ;
- Made a clarion call for the massive investment and funding on the poultry industry from both the private and public sources;
- Declared that Cameroon can effectively use the poultry industry to come out of our economic crises in a very short spell of time just by making massive investments in the industry ! That Cameroon has enormous potentials to produce enough poultry products for ourselves and sell the surplus to the neighbouring countries;
- In order to do this, the SESURUDEV President explained that we should produce poultry following the modern methods by respecting the acknowledged norms i.e. the husbandry norms, the prophylaxis norms, the biosecurity norms and the most modern performance norms or indices ;
- Explained that we have to, however, surmount the following constraints: (a) intensify poultry training by making widespread use of this book; (b) substantially increase the production of corn, rice and soya beans because corn is used in 40 to 70% of poultry compound feed and that the by-products of rice and soya beans are important feed ingredients; (c) urgently create or facilitate the creation of a poultry slaughtering and freezing unit in Cameroon;
- Revealed that intensive poultry production, which is done in accordance with the established norms, is a very lucrative endeavour and can provide employment to the thousands of our unemployed youths;
- Further disclosed that the minimum net profit for one broiler raised for only 6 to 7 weeks ranges from 200 to 400 francs cfa. That our research has shown that a farmer who produces 5 batches of 2000 broilers in one year (respecting a rest period between the batches of 15 to 21 days) will conveniently make a net profit of 284,000 francs cfa per month - provided of course if he or she is properly trained and the required norms are strictly followed;
At the end of the talk-show, the illustrious moderator of the crew, promised to in future invite the author of the book to come back to the programme and further educate the public on the outstanding potentials or opportunities of the poultry industry in Cameroon.
The book, which can be ordered from abroad through the internet at the price of about 9500 francs cfa excluding the cost of postage, is now available for sale in various bookshops in many towns in Cameroon for a social non-profit price of just 3500 francs a copy !!!
Development and poverty alleviation is a herculean task that requires the implication of everyone.
SESURUDEV is making a general appeal for individuals or organisations to help in sponsoring the launching of the book in Yaounde and to help sponsor the translation of the book into French. We also need a sponsor for the production of the second book in the series entitled "Concise Practical Agriculture" which is still in manuscript.
ALOYSIUS NJIE AJUA
President of Self-Supporting Rural Development Association (SESURUDEV),
P.O. Box 31225, YAOUNDE, CAMEROON.
Tel: (+237) 96847084
Email:
sesurudev@yahoo.fr
aloysiusnjie@yahoo.com
Website:
http://01080280237.blogspot.com
PRESS RELEASE - CLIMATE CHANGE OPINIONS OF SESURUDEV AND CONGRATS TO BARACK OBAMA FOR HIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
SESURUDEV wishes to table its own opinions on the climate change/global warming conference currently going on in Copenhagen, Denmark. However, before doing that, we wish to first of all heartily congratulate His Excellency President Barack Obama for his reception in Oslo today 10th December, 2009 of the prestigious NOBEL PEACE PRIZE which he indeed fully deserves.
This is a logical culmination of the global campaign which SESURUDEV and others did resolutely and successfully make for him to be justly nominated.
We of the civil society earnestly hope that this globally recognised prize will further spur him to COURAGEOUSLY PURSUE his progressive policies on the environment, good governance and the empowerment of the poor.
It is common knowledge that each US citizen releases into the environment 40 times the harmful green house gases than what an African does and that, population-wise, the USA is still the heaviest producer of these gases. We also know that, as per country, China has overtaken the USA in causing this global problem!! For the above and other reasons, the rest of the world is expecting the USA to take its place on the driving seat and come up with serious proposals to significantly cut down the use of fossil fuels and also grant a big enough compensation to the poor tropical countries who are the greatest victims of this global warming phenomenon.
Climate change skeptics, who are against any steps to reduce green house gas emissions, can be equated to the slave owners of the 18th century!
We are calling on President, Barack Obama to step into the shoes of his mentor, the legendary President Abraham Lincoln, who brilliantly led his country with courage to fight a civil war against slave trade. Climate Change skepics are greedy people with vested interests like those slave owners of old. They need to be politely told that they are wrong.
They hide behind flimsy arguments or excuses to ask that people should ignore the present misery of a billion poor human beings and to risk a multiplicity of disasters especially to countries of the south not leaving out low-lying areas of the north like Holland, New Orleans and Japan.
Concretely our proposals are as follows:
1) Every country should create a parastatal or Government Agency in charge of monitoring climate change and the development of clean, green and renewable technologies. Enough members of the civil society should be among the members of the board of directors of such an agency.
2) The parastatal or Agency should receive and spend all the internal and external funding geared towards the development, use and promotion of green and renewable energy technologies.
3) The climate change compensation funding from abroad should include the actual setting up of factories located in the developing countries for the manufacture of the equipment and appliances of green or renewable technologies. People all over the world, including the poorest of the poor in the very remote villages, should leap-frog from the archaic coal-based energy use to the most modern renewable energy technologies.
This should be done in such a way that the prices will drop and the appliances are readily available in shops and stores across the countries as commonplace as mobile phones are at present. NB. The destruction of trees for cooking firewood will be greatly reduced (which is quite good for the climate) if the green technologies are readily available and financially affordable to both the rural and the urban poor alike.
4)Green Technologies which should be practically promoted and subsidized by the Agency should include:
(a)Micro- hydro-electric turbines to provide energy in villages that are out of the power grid as a decentralised system;
(b)Photovoltaic solar panels to provide electricity in homes and on public street lights;
(c)Solar thermal driers and heaters to provide heat to dry fish, cocoa or coffee beans etc.;
(d) Micro wind turbines for remote villages situated on hills or at the sea coast;
(e)Most modern hybrid rechargeable batteries for vehicles or home lighting;
(f) Promotion of the use of public transport systems in towns and cities that use as source of energy either compressed natural gas or a combination of solar energy and modern hybrid batteries.
(g) Biogas obtention from connections made from the septic tanks of homes or better still the setting up of biogas digesters to produce cooking gas from the manure of cattle, pigs or poultry.
5) Taxes should be paid by air transport and shipping companies as per kilometre travelled and the money put in the global fund for climate change to be controlled by the United Nations.
6) The price tag for one tonne of carbon released into the atmosphere should be increased and the carbon trading mechanism should be made more operational and fine-tuned or effective.
7) A percentage of vehicle windscreen licence tax should be collected by each government in the world and the money sent to the global fund for climate change. In this case, the windscreen licence tax should be increased to cover the cost of the global tax that will be agreed!!
People all over the world, should show a serious commitment to take real action to solve this serious problem in such a way that a real impact is made to reverse the trend of the impending calamities!!
ALOYSIUS NJIE AJUA
PRESIDENT OF SELF-SUPPORTING RURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (SESURUDEV),
P.O. Box 31225, YAOUNDE, CAMEROON.
Tel. +237 96847084
Email:
sesurudev@yahoo.fr
aloysiusnjie@yahoo.com
Website:
http://01080280237.blogspot.com
We need a funding of a total of 44,130 $US to enable us print 2000 poultry books and 2000 Agriculture books which we have written and published to encourage modern intensive methods of mixed farming. This money also includes the translation of the books into French and the cost of sponsoring 20 short courses on poultry production and crop agriculture especially conservation agriculture.
ANY AMOUNT WILL BE WELCOME!
NB Copies of the manual entitled "Practical POultry Production and Marketing" by Aloysius Njie Ajua ISBN 9956 627 00 3 is already in Cosmopen Bookshop, Carrefour EMIA, Yaounde.
