I have two wives, four children, and two nephews. I also took in two orphans, a boy and a girl. I live in TAKALEDOUGOU, a village located 15km from Banfora and 75km from Bobo Dioulasso. I like agriculture and raising cattle. I completed elementary school in Takaledougou and then Middle and High School in Banfora. I have a High School degree. I studied English with TARGET INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE. I received training to be a language tutor with the USA Peace Corps.
I produce and process manioc (Garri and Attieke). I cultivate manioc, process it, and use the residue to raise cattle such as pigs, goats, and sheep. I am currently producing very little so as to provide for the population and SNSOSUCO workers. Because of the quality of my product, I am considering large scale production to supply certain areas of Burkina and also Mali thanks to loyal customers of Dédougou. This project will help all manioc producers as well as cattle farmers. It will contribute to creating employment for some people from the village and will help fight against poverty and starvation. This center will also allow training producers and manioc processors. It will be profitable because the raw material is provided and processed by itself. The residue is also used for cattle-raising. The only difficulty is the mortality of the cattle. The required sum is 1.750.000fcfa for the purchase of an engine to mash the manioc, a press, and two sifters.
The unit’s revenue is estimated to a minimum of 150.000fcfa a month without taking into consideration the sale of the cattle and their waste.
Every time I’m thinking about my project and I found that it is better to create another job by the grace of the first with is cassava transformation. I got ideas. I can realize all these small projects after building one compound for my cassava activities. I need now for one place for my cassava job because I get many problems with animals. Cows, sheep, chicken, pigs like very well cassava residues. Every time when we are working, they come to eat these residues. It is a big problem to me to put their away all the time. All the night my house is full of animals.
I receive many persons for a visit but the only idea that they give me is to look for one place for my job and they are sure that the job will go on well. I need for this loan only to build two houses. The first will be a kitchen and the second will be use to put my product `attieke’ in sachet. In from of these two houses I will make one shed where we will stay to take away the wasps of cassava.