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Following a training workshop organized by CORAF as part of the project to scale up agricultural technologies and innovations to increase the resilience of production systems and family farms in West and Central Africa(TARSPro), players operating in seven agricultural sectors in North Benin will benefit from innovation platforms (IP), which will de facto facilitate their adoption of technologies and innovations.

Milk, corn, mango, onion, potato, soya and meat are the seven targeted sectors, and the IPs will be set up in the northern departments of Alibori, Atacora, Borgou and Donga, in Benin.

"The main aim of the TARSPro project is to support the widespread dissemination of the fruits of agricultural research in West and Central Africa, and innovation platforms are one of the project's implementation mechanisms", recalled Marie Nicole Taha NKOUM, TARSPro Project Manager at CORAF.

"It is recognized that the generation and dissemination of technology and innovations are the keystone of agricultural development," emphasized Daniel Missimahou NOUKPOZOUNKOU, Agro-Sociologist at the Institut national des recherches agricoles du Bénin (INRAB).

It is therefore expected that the IPs put in place will facilitate the adoption of technologies and innovations in the targeted sectors.

"All the commodity chains covered by the TARSPro project are in line with those promoted by the third phase of the Rural Development Sector Support Program (PASDeR3)," explained Soufianou KIBISSA, representative of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), which is funding both the TARSPro project and PASDeR3.

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The workshop will bring together thirty-four (34) participants from May 09 to 14, 2022 in Parakou, Benin, who will be trained in setting up and facilitating innovation platforms (IP). 

In the same vein, players in the other TARSPro project countries - Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad - will also benefit from similar IP implementation training courses.

The next stop is Burkina Faso, where the workshop will take place from May 16 to 20, 2022.