Guinea - Beyla-Kerouane Agro-Pastoral Development Project (PRODABEK)

The Beyla-Kerouane Agro-Pastoral Development Project (PRODABEK) is part of the Government's policy to ensure food security and improve the incomes and living conditions of the population. Its design stems from the desire of the Government and the African Development Bank to remove the major constraints that hinder the sustainable development of the agricultural sector in Forestry Guinea. In quantitative terms, it was expected to result in a food production of 72,000 tonnes per year and an additional meat production of 5,380 tonnes per year from the fifth year onwards. PRODABEK was thus designed to increase agricultural food production, as well as meat and egg and milk production, reduce women's labour to enable them to engage in income-generating activities, rehabilitate the degraded environment and facilitate the movement of goods and people, trade between Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire and regional integration. The project is structured around six (06) components, namely: (A) support for agricultural production; (B) support for livestock production; (C) development of lowlands; (D) rehabilitation of rural roads; (E) agricultural and rural credit; and (F) project management and monitoring and evaluation.