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- The National Food Security Programme (PNSA) and
- The establishment of a high-performance monitoring and evaluation system (SSE). The SSE
seeks to facilitate the regular monitoring of the state of progress of the SAN’s
implementation and the appraisal of its effects and impact on the populations.
The National Agricultural Strategy (SAN) drafted in 2008, covers the period 2008 to 2015 and focuses
on four priority areas:
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Sustained growth of productivity and agricultural production,
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Promotion of agri-business industries,
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Support for the professionalization of the producers and the development of private
initiatives,
- Building the management and development capacities of the agricultural sector. The National
Food Security Programme (PNSA) validated in 2008 is intended to constitute a coherent and
integrative framework for the activities to be carried out by the various technical Ministries
for the full realization of the four dimensions of food security, namely: availability, the
stability of agricultural production, economic and geographic accessibility and the optimal
biological utilization of food.
Within the context of the capacity building of the supervision and training institutions organized for
the farmers, 816 agricultural instructors were recruited as against 1,000 in 2007 and 287 in 2006. To
extenuate the impact of the drought, training modules were prepared and used in training 716
monitors in the Bururi, Makamba, Rutana, land Mwaro Provinces.
Agricultural professionalization is an area under trial in Burundi. In 2008, six training workshops took
place to put in place an Action Plan for the Professional Agricultural Organizations (OPA) and their
supporting institutions as well as agricultural extension public services. The objective for the year
2008 was to realize ten model operators per census hill capable of having three heaps of ditch
composting which would produce 4 to 5 tons of manure per compost heap so as to offset stock
shortages of chemical fertilizer.
At the same time, capacity building programmes were carried out in favour of:
- Rural agronomists on fertilization techniques, on production systems, on the processing and
preservation of potato, beans, maize and rice seeds;
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Senior officers and technicians as well as seed multiplication groupings and