ASSOCIATED VOLUNTEER experts

Audit mission in Savalou in Benin for AMJE

Upon request of the AMJE (Association Michel Jestin pour l'Enfance), a Breton association, Louis Jestin (AVe) carried out, in January 2020, an audit mission in an agricultural high school in Benin, located in Savalou ( 250 km north of Cotonou).

	The team managing the school : competence and dynamism		The 4 classrooms module which was funded by AMJE in 2017

Assessment of a vegetable garden managed by a vegetable cooperative in Benin

Upon request of a Belgian association "ASBL le Verso du Miroir", Louis Jestin (AVe) carried out a mission to assess the development of a vegetable garden located in Passari, near Djougou. The association set it up in 2015/2016 and entrusted the management to a women's cooperative. Louis Jestin has been working for the fourth time on this vegetable garden since 2017 (an intervention at the beginning of each year).

Learning to use new tools, here manual airplanter		The water supply installation allows year-round production		Watering is done by sprinkling

Marketing / sales support and meeting in Shanghaï

From December 9 to 23, 2019, Jean-Baptiste Genin, AVe expert, carried out a mission in China divided into 2 parts :

Pork project of two Cameroonians, MM Chengoue and Tchoubet living in France as part of a return to their country.

Preliminary discussions between the two interested parties and the AVe association led to the signing of a partnership agreement to formalize the project with the business plan establishment  in July and a mission to Cameroon in August.

From August 15 to 25, 2019, Angelet Tchoubet, one of the project leaders and Louis Jestin (AVe) led together a “field mission” to Cameroon in order to discover the different links in the country pork sector and to specify the project based on the realities of this sector.

Technical mission to the Laiterie du Berger in Richard Toll

As part of the agreement between the Laiterie du Berger, the In Vivo Foundation and AVe, Jean Paul and Gilbert, AVe experts, carried out a technical mission to Richard Toll (Senegal) in January 2019. During the previous AVe mission in May 2018, Daniel and Louis, following their diagnosis, had indicated that the most effective lever to increase milk production was the cow's feed in the dairy collection area. These cows,  zebu breed, produced 1 to 2 liters of milk per day. By improving feed, this production can be doubled. As the collection area is located near an irrigated area (development of the Senegal river) with a major sugar cane plantation (17,000 ha), the idea is to use two sugar cane by-products to feed cows : mooring lines (the end of sugar cane straws) left on the plot and molasses, a by-product of the cane refinery.

	Gilbert and Jean Paul with farm staff of the Laiterie du Berger		Mamadou, manager of the Laiterie du Berger with Jean Paul and Gilbert		Mamadou, Jean Paul and Gilbert in front of the (experimental) herd of the Laiterie du Berger

  Seminar of December 5 and 6, 2018 

After the 2016 and 2017 seminars, Ms. Echo LIAN, director of the Zhuzhou FTS Center, has successfully organized a new event on December 5 and 6, 2018, proof of the trust placed in AVe (Associated Volunteer Experts).

6th AVe mission to a cooperative of pork producers in Central Cameroon

SCOOPS-PIC is a cooperative of pork producers located in the Yaoundé region. Created in 2016, with the support of AVe and the In Vivo Foundation since 2017, the cooperative has finalized its project. This includes two components : on one hand developing and professionalizing member farms and, on the other hand, setting up a value chain at cooperative level by creating upstream and downstream services for farms.

  1st AVe Mission for the Laiterie du Berger - Richard Toll in Senegal

In early 2018, two AVe experts, Louis Jestin and Daniel Mathiot carried out a first mission for the “Shepherd's Dairy”, a Senegalese family business, created in 2006 in Richard Toll in Senegal by Bagore Bathilly, a young Senegalese veterinarian.

	Milking is done by hand, twice a day, in the presence of the calf		Bagore Bathilly director of the Laiterie du Berger - Daniel and Louis AVe Experts

4th Ave expert mission for the SCOOPS-PIC pork producer Cooperative in Cameroon

From March 21 to April 5, 2018 Denis Salaun and Bernard Bernicot, AVe experts, carried out a new mission with the breeders of the SCOOP-PIC in Yaounde.

3rd AVe mission for a pig Cooperative in central Cameroon

Louis Jestin and Jean-François Montin, AVe experts experienced a very positive mission in Yaoundé from November 25 to December 1, 2017. The program had two main points : the validation of the SCOOPS-PIC project, a cooperative of around twenty pork producers and participation in the inauguration of PRODEL (Livestock Development Program) organized by MINEPIA (Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries)

Louis Jestin, AVe, Rene Foche, SCOOPS-PIC president, Rachel Kolbe-Semhoun, IN VIVO Foundation and Jean-François Montin, AVe		Very cordial exchange between the Minister of Livestock and the two AVe experts, in front of the SCOOPS-PIC stand