Agribusiness consulting China: China develops Agri-business in Africa

The distrust towards the Chinese presence in the African agriculture sector concerns in particular " the massive cornering of lands, to feed China ", the slowness of the model of cooperation, an orchestration centralized by the government, etc. Tech Expert invites the African governments to take advantage of the Chinese experience in agricultural material.

Investment of China in African agri-business

The interventions of the Chinese actors in the farming sector do not risk blocking the agri-business development of the continent. The land acquisitions are not as well important as we say it, the agricultural projects serve first and foremost the food needs in countries or regions (rice, truck farming, sugar, etc.) and have not for object to be exported to satisfy the food needs for China. There is within the Chinese administration a will to set up sectors of transformation of farm produces, to create income locally: it's like that some sugar, some cotton, some leather etc.

Both development can be possible

We are at a moment the history where the crossed looks are necessary, even essential. The experience of development of China can contribute to feed a model of cooperation with Africa, but this model also has to feed on lessons past and accumulated by the other investors as well as the lessons accumulated by the African decision-makers that they are in the Central Administrations or NGO(NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION), or begun. Just like China has NO solution to its model of agricultural development in China because of still very low weak standards of living in countryside and of politics which have still excluded many farmers, Africa also has teachings to be given in China provided that this one agrees to analyze the trajectories of each of the countries.

In brief, a politics based on the improvement of the conditions of the agri-business is possible. In Africa, since the structural adjustments, agricultural policies underwent a severe lapel. If the State was strongly slandered in its management of big sectors as the cotton, the coffee, the cocoa in the eighties and ninety, the liberalization did not give all the expected results.