TRHREAD AXIS 9: AGRICULTURE,FOOD AUTONOMY & RURALITY Pillar of national sovereignty. 🟧🧡🍊 21/ What This Means for Everyone For families: affordable, safe, local food. For farmers: land titles, credit access, decent income, and social security. For youth: jobs in mechanization, processing, logistics, and agri-tech. For rural communities: roads, water, power, internet, and modern schools. For the nation: true food autonomy, a rural-industrial economy, and respect abroad for its ability to feed its people while creating prosperity at home. 🟧🧡🍊 @Pcrn_Officiel @CabralLibii @eowonapatrick @wandafu7 @Nouchka__9 @nyobelipot #CoalitionOrange #Cabral2025 #FoodAutonomy #RuralRevolution #LandTitles #AgriCredit #AgroHubs #StrategicReserves #Research4Impact #PositiveTradeBalance

THREAD AXIS 9: AGRICULTURE, FOOD AUTONOMY & RURALITY Pillar of national sovereignty. 🟧🧡🍊 5/ Production, Loss Reduction & Irrigation We tackle post-harvest losses (storage, drying, packaging) and increase yields with irrigation (solar pumps, small dams), improved seeds, and tailored agronomic practices. Short supply chains and local processing minimize waste between farm and table. Five agro-ecological zones guide localized technical support. Result: more volume, higher quality, and lower unit costs. 6/ Smart Mechanization (no white elephants) Instead of piling up idle machines, we deploy mechanization service centers offering plowing, sowing, harvesting, and post-harvest services. These centers include trained operators, maintenance, and spare parts. Equipment is accessible via cooperative-managed rentals. Subsidies and credit are tied to usage and performance. Goal: ×5 productivity increase and secured cropping calendars across major staples. 7/ Value Chains & Local Processing We establish regional agro-industrial hubs for rice, maize, cassava, millet, oils, dairy, and meat. Processing happens close to production basins, doubling local value capture and reducing imports. Public procurement guarantees demand (80% local sourcing for canteens, hospitals, army). These hubs become anchors for rural economies, stabilizing farmer incomes and consumer prices. 8/ Storage, Price Stabilization & Logistics Strategic food reserves (regional/national) absorb seasonal shocks and stabilize prices. Rural roads are rehabilitated, and modern wholesale markets with logistics hubs (weighing, quality control, one-stop services) are deployed. Digital platforms deliver real-time market prices and reduce speculation. Result: food security that is predictable — and bankable. 🟧🧡🟠 @Pcrn_Officiel @CabralLibii @wandafu7 @Nouchka__9 @nyobelipot #CoalitionOrange #Cabral2025 #FoodAutonomy #RuralRevolution #LandTitles #AgriCredit

THREAD AXIS 9: AGRICULTURE, FOOD AUTONOMY & RURALITY Pillar of national sovereignty. 🟧🧡🍊 1/ Vision & Guiding Principle We embrace a strategic shift: to feed the nation with its own resources, to reindustrialize through agriculture, and to transform rural areas into territories of opportunity. Cameroon has nearly 7.2M ha of arable land, with only 1.8M ha currently cultivated, and a food import bill exceeding 700B FCFA/year (2007–2017), feeding into a trade deficit of about 2,000B FCFA in 2023. The solution is food autonomy and nutritional sovereignty not slogans but imperatives for the economy and society. The ambition is to build an agricultural and agro-industrial powerhouse that creates jobs, stabilizes prices, improves health and resilience, and strengthens sovereignty. 2/ Potential to Mobilize (the numbers that commit us) The country can immediately bring millions of hectares into production and create millions of jobs if land rights are secured, practices modernized, and market access guaranteed. The ambition: join the Top 3 African agricultural producers, attract talent (including the diaspora), and turn agriculture into a sector of excellence. A five-year roadmap will deploy resources by production basin, with public tools (credit windows, agro hubs) and performance contracts. The goal: turn vast potential into added value at home sustainable, exportable, and wealth-generating. 3/ Shock of Self-Sufficiency (imports → local production) Rice, wheat, fish, milk, edible oils: import dependence undermines sovereignty. We replace imports with local production by securing access to inputs, irrigation, markets, and processing capacity. Public procurement (school canteens, hospitals, the army) will shift to locally sourced food to spark demand. This means drastically reduced imports, resilience to global shocks, and an improved trade balance. 4/ Immediate Measures (Year 1, high-leverage action) • Land reform: free land titles for smallholders. • Agricultural credit at 3%: FCFA 500B mobilized. • Mechanization: 50,000 tractors and equipment through local service centers. • 1,000 cooperatives created and equipped with professional governance. • Certified seeds distributed to 500,000 farmers. Year 1 is the ignition stage: securing land, access to finance, machinery, seeds, and guaranteed markets to kickstart the agricultural revolution. 🟧🧡🟠 @Pcrn_Officiel @CabralLibii @Nouchka__9 @wandafu7 @eowonapatrick @nyobelipot #CoalitionOrange #Cabral2025 #FoodAutonomy #RuralRevolution #AgriCredit #LandTitles