Covid in Faranah: the prefectural director of agriculture does not forget this sad episode

However, the coronavirus has had a disastrous impact on their business with long-term effects. Fortunately, the farmers of Faranah did not stop working during the health crisis. However, the coronavirus pandemic has negatively and significantly affected this already very weakened sector of activity. Fanta Diané, prefectural director of agriculture in Faranah, spoke to Universciences about the damage caused by the coronavirus in agricultural activities in her prefecture.

The virus took Faranah's agricultural world by surprise. Since he made his baptism of fire when the farmers were preparing for sowing. Like many sectors, farmers have experienced an economic impact from covid-19.

“The impact was felt a lot in agricultural activities. It was at peak time that this epidemic began, so we experienced a big delay in starting activities,” said Fanta Diané, prefectural director of agriculture in Faranah.

The virus mixed up the calculations on the plan

The cessation of activities, of field work, due to this virus unknown to people, destabilizes the pre-established operating plan for high production and high profitability. “The lack of movement had a big impact on production and profitability. The months of March, April and May are devoted to plowing and pre-cultivation work; it is at this moment that all movement has ceased, with all the constraints; because of distrust, people stayed put without going to work,” recalled the prefectural director of agriculture.

Awareness precautions taken

With this health crisis situation which goes so far as to stop activities in a given sector, precautions will have been taken; first of which is collective awareness. “The first measure was to raise awareness among producers about respecting barrier gestures,” explains Fanta Diané.

There is hope among farmers

All the same, the prefectural director of agriculture admits to the gap that was established between the start of the pandemic and at the moment. Farmers are gradually getting back on track with production and the sale of products: “at the very beginning of the pandemic, there is a slowdown; but now production is picking up again with an increase in production, the flow is also easier between the prefectures.”

Amadou Dari Diallo and Mamadou Kindy Bah, back from Faranah for AJSG