STRATEGIC MEETING THIS TUESDAY IN LUBUMBASHI WITH THE GRAND KATANGA SPACE FEC
The Congolese Government, through the Minister of Commerce, invites operators
economics of the greater Katanga area to invest more in agriculture, because they will benefit from state subsidies, with the aim of finally ending the corn crisis in the greater Katanga and greater Kasai areas and thus becoming independent of neighboring countries including Zambia.
Julien Paluku Kahongya launched this call this Tuesday in Lubumbashi during the strategic meeting in which he informed the Congo-FEC Grand Katanga Business Federation of the effective reopening of the borders by Zambia since Tuesday, unconditionally, and of the good harvest achieved by the DRC at the end of the bipartite with Zambia which has undertaken to track down the splitting of goods passing through its soil towards the DRC to fight against dumping which negatively impacts Congolese industries and has accepted the revisitation in the coming days of the bilateral trade agreement, at the request of the DRC which is keen to consolidate the safeguarding of its local production.
Also only, goods of Zambian origin which will enter the DRC as stipulated by the exception contained in the series of Government measures prohibiting the temporary importation of certain products added the Minister of Foreign Trade.
Welcoming the management with which the Government quickly resolved the trade crisis with Zambia, the FEC Grand Katanga will in the following hours submit to the Minister's office a memerendum with a series of proposals for facilities to be requested from the Government to thus boost agriculture in this part of the country, said Patrick Muland Kabey, President of the FEC-Haut-Katanga.
This Government initiative, which consists of boosting agriculture and providing the country with a minimum of 3 routes for evacuating minerals and other products, is highly welcomed by the Governor of Haut-Katanga, Jacques Kyabula, who already supports the revival of agriculture in his province.
Concerning the balancega phenomenon at the Kasumabalesa border post, the Minister of Foreign Trade announced that the public power of the State must apply to discourage this practice which is causing the public treasury to bleed.
