Cameroonian farmers in the Northern regions will soon have access to micro sound tools and equipment to fight migratory birds and locusts that cause much destruction to crops every year. The revelation was made yesterday, Tuesday October 18 in Yaounde by Dr. Likiby Boubakar, the Permanent Secretary of the National Committee for Technology Development, NCTD, during a workshop to present the findings of NCTD’s technical commissions. “The micro sound tools will be a major revolution in agriculture. When installed in farms, they emit unpleasant noises that keep away granivorous birds and insects,” he said.
The workshop that was organised by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, MINRESI, was attended by university lecturers, researchers and other stakeholders involved in the transfer of technology. They listened to experts’ reports on five studies carried out by the technical commissions. Besides the installation of micro sound equipment in farms, experts presented other research results in domains such as the use of space technology; the modernisation of data management for Cameroonian businesses and government offices; the use of innovative materials and techniques in housing technology in Cameroon with Yaounde as a case study; and the search for innovative technologies to improve the productivity of small scale gold miners in Cameroon.
Presiding at the opening ceremony, the Secretary General of MINRESI, Rebecca Madeleine Ebelle Etame, said the activities carried out during the first semester of 2011 by the technical commissions were in line with NCTD’s new vision to consolidate its achievements. NCTD, she continued, drew inspiration from Vision 2035, the Growth and Employment Strategy Paper, GESP, as well as the Head of State’s Great Achievements plan. “Science, technology and innovation are always at the heart of industrial development, job creation and productivity in all sectors,” she said. Organisers said the workshop will incorporate pertinent remarks from various participants before the results are disseminated nationwide for public use.
NCTD was created by presidential decree in April 1978 and modified by same in March 1982, to, amongst others, carry out feasibility studies on the adaptation and acquisition of local and foreign technologies likely to efficiently contribute to the socio-economic development of Cameroon.
