Raphael Bahati Masudi

Abandonment of Agricultural Land in Kalehe South Kivu Province, Drc Raphael Bahati Masudi

Agriculture remains a key sector of human life, as it is said that everything comes from the land. Today, rural populations have difficulties in meeting basic social needs due to several visible constraints. Some people know that without villages there are no cities and without agriculture there is no life. The DRC, a country that is scandalously rich in natural resources, finds it extremely difficult to feed its population because of growing insecurity, infertility of the soil, land conflicts, mining, poor farming techniques, advanced dilapidation of communication routes, etc. This creates a dependence on neighbouring countries for food. This creates a dependence on neighbouring countries for food, which have never had the enormous potential that this country of Lumumba has. A solid and dynamic food production and agricultural system is therefore one of the main pillars of the economic growth and development strategy. When villagers go to the city to buy agricultural products that they can produce locally, it is a suicide for the village economy itself, an inflationary attitude that should challenge us.