The magnificent structure officially went operational on thursday.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has set up an office for Cameroon and Gabon in Yaounde to cover the Central African Sub-region. The country office at the Bastos neighbourhood in Yaounde was inaugurated yesterday March 1, as part of activities marking the four-day working visit of IFAD’s President to Cameroon, Kanayo F. Nwanze.

Speaking during the ceremony, Mr Kanayo F. Nwanze said setting up the office in Yaounde testified of IFAD’s willingness to reinforce partnership with government especially at a time government is redoubling efforts to boost agriculture in view of attaining an emerging economy status by 2035. Speaker after speaker at the event prayed for intensification of IFAD-government partnership to move Cameroon from subsistence agriculture that had characterised the sector here to second-generation agriculture that will not only feed the population but develop the economy as well. The ceremony was attended among others by cabinet ministers.