Burundi

In traditional cattle farming, the cows were a local breed. Nowadays, however, there is a new ‘modern’ breed of cow. The indigenous cows are small. But the pure-breed modern cows are larger and more productive than the traditional ones. Traditional cattle farming is a case of quantity over quality.

We are currently restoring the fertility of arable land by producing and using manure. Because of an interventionist policy farmers gradually abandoned the methods handed down to them by their ancestors. One of the solutions I am putting forward for making the land fertile again is called ‘accelerated composting’ and is carried out in five steps ...

In Burundi, the agricultural sector is the engine of the national economy and guarantees the food security of our population. Agriculture is practiced in a traditional way by about 90% of the rural population.