DRC - The development of livestock farming

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

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Only 4.5 million hectares are dedicated to livestock farming. However, vast expanses of pastureland could support over 40 million head of cattle. Nevertheless, the national livestock population is highly diversified and dominated by goats in terms of head count: 111,300 cattle, 141,300 sheep, 151,300 pigs, and 601,300 goats.

The rehabilitation, modernization, and development of the N'Sele Presidential Agro-Industrial Estate (DAIPN) in Lukelenge, Kasai Oriental, financed to the tune of $5 million through the Industrial Promotion Fund (FPI), has revived production in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, located in the center of the country. Its aim 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, DAIPN has invested in poultry farming, agriculture, and livestock feed production. Every day, LR Group produces poultry feed based on corn and soybeans, some of which is used for its own poultry operation and some of which is sold to other farmers.

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The Katongola Livestock Farms (Grelka) have a herd of 30,000 cattle grazing on 450,000 hectares. In addition to Grelka's assets, GoCongo includes 3,000 hectares of farmland, 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 operator in the Greater Katanga region, with a herd of 24,000 head of 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 head of cattle on a total area of 73,000 hectares. This large workforce should help the company strengthen its livestock processing activities and boost the beef value chain in the country. It also intends to increase the average annual number of calves born to 15,000 over the next three years, compared to the current 8,000. For the Democratic Republic of Congo, the creation of this holding company represents an opportunity. While 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 operate according to the principles of sustainable development and will include a reforestation component.