Here, it is in BURUNDI, the heart of Africa, in Kayanza province, where a company Itracom Seeds and Agriculture ITRASAGRI in acronym is carrying out its agronomic research. It is a company manufacturing, production and multiplying selected seeds in Burundi, and in the countries where the organo mineral fertilizer company FOMI established its production industries five years ago.
To fight against malnutrition, famine and poverty, to achieve sustainable development moving towards the vision of an emerging country in 2040 and developed in 2060, agriculture comes first to be the foundation of this vision.
For agriculture to contribute to the achievement of this vision, it must be a modern one։ the preparation of a growing land, a good application of fertilizer of quality, selected seeds as well as the divine blessing.
Here, we are in Muruta commune of Kayanza province, where agronomic research is carried out on the production and multiplication of selected potato seeds .
The General Director of ITRASAGRI Deo Guide Rurema Ph D, with his collaborators, these of the FOMI Company and journalists made a visit to the ground to see the progress after five months of the birth of the company. He tells us the merits of the birth of the society and its missions.
Seed propagation is not an easy thing. It requires regular monitoring, step by step, of the development of its seeds. For example, with potatoes, the work begins in GREEN HOUSES, continues in the seed fields, until distributing to farmers.
The potatoes seeds produced there in green houses are planted in these fields that you see.
The ITRASAGRI company is also carrying out its seed multiplication research in the Gahombo Commune of KAYANZA Province on the cultivation of corn and potatoes. These are good fields, well laid out, well maintained, on sloping soil on which agriculture seems not to be possible, but the General Director of ITRASAGRI tells us about the techniques that they used to have such good fields .
The use of organo mineral fertilizers from the FOMI Company is a good choice, whether on plants or on the hearth. At ITRASAGRI Company they tried it and they succeeded, Dr Deo Guide Rurema testifies.
In its research, ITRASAGRI has not forgotten to associate agriculture with livestock breeding and the environment. In these fields, we find agro forest trees on the one hand and livestock farming on the other hand.
Just five months after its birth, ITRASAGRI has hired more than 300employees and comes to contribute to the country’s economy through the payment of taxes