DRC - The development of livestock farming

In this sector, which employs the majority of the workforce, the development of the livestock sector could offer enormous opportunities to meet the demand for animal products and generate export revenue.

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Only 4.5 million hectares of land are devoted to livestock farming. However, vast expanses of pastureland could raise more than 40 million head of cattle. However, the national livestock population is very diverse and dominated by goats in terms of head count: 11% of cattle, 14% of sheep, 15% of pigs, and 60% of goats.

The rehabilitation, modernization, and development of the N'Sele Presidential Agro-Industrial Estate (DAIPN) in Lukelenge, Kasai Oriental, funded to the tune of $5 million through the Industry Promotion Fund (FPI), has relaunched production in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, located in the center of the country. Its goal is to make the Lukelenge farm a model of a modern agro-industrial project. It sells broiler chickens and more than 180,000 eggs per week on the local market at very affordable prices. Thanks to a public-private partnership between the Congolese government and the Israeli company LR Group Limited, the DAIPN has invested in poultry farming, agriculture, and livestock feed production. Every day, the LR Group produces corn- and soy-based poultry feed, some of which is used for its poultry sector and some of which is sold to other farmers.

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Grands Élevages de Katongola (Grelka) has a herd of 30,000 cattle grazing on 450,000 hectares. In addition to Grelka's assets, GoCongo also owns 3,000 hectares of crops, a biscuit factory, and meat processing and marketing activities. In March 2022, the group announced the acquisition of Pastorale du Haut-Lomami (PHL), the second-largest livestock farm in the Grand-Katanga region, with a herd of 24,000 cattle on a 70,000-hectare estate north of Kamina, the capital of Haut-Lomami province. With this acquisition, the company will now have a herd of nearly 56,000 cattle on a total territory of 73,000 hectares. This large workforce should help the company strengthen its livestock processing operations and boost the country's beef value chain. It also aims to increase the average annual birth rate to 15,000 calves over the next three years, compared to the current 8,000. For the Democratic Republic of Congo, the creation of this holding company is an opportunity. As the country struggles to feed its 80 million inhabitants and control rising food prices, it must also combat deforestation. GoCongo has expressed its desire to deploy its operations in accordance with the principles of sustainable development and will notably have a component dedicated to reforestation.