My Visit to SABEL, Burkina Faso

SABEL(Salon International d’elevages Burkina Faso)

Yesterday, the 27th November, 2018 was the premier edition of the exposition(SABEL) that promotes the availability of animal products in Burkina Faso. So it was an agricultural fair to encourage and enhance investment in the agricultural sector in the country. There was an audible response to the event. People- crop farmers, animal rearers, fishermen, and so on came from different parts of the country with their items for the fair. This got me thinking a lot about the benefits this event could hold for the country.

Highlights of Burkina Faso:

~a West African country

~with rapidly growing population of over 19million inhabitants

~land mass about 272,967sq. km

~9major ethnic groups

~about 69languages spoken

Based on the highlights above, it’s no doubt that agriculture would be beneficial for a country like Burkina Faso. Thus this exposition is a way of calling on the government of Burkina Faso and foreign investors to look into the agricultural sector.

Here are some benefits it will most likely bring to the populace:-

✓Generate Food- Investing in agriculture will help bring food to the tables of the poor masses. Food prices will be cheaper and standard of living will thereby be improved.

✓Generate Income- Investing in agriculture will result in enough output of the produce,which can also be exported to other countries thus generating both income to the people and revenue to the government.

✓Employment- There will be employment opportunities created for hordes of youths roaming the streets if government invests in agriculture.

✓Raw Materials- Surely, most raw materials to be used for manufacturing other goods are gotten from agricultural products or by-products.

✓Medicine

✓Tourism, and so on.

Some of the agricultural products including butter, yoghurt, soap.

The African catfish

Imported Cow 🐄, from France

It’s quite impressive that a remote African country like Burkina Faso creates such awareness.

Easy basic Chocolate cake

Oh, finally! I got to do this. It’s quite interesting to try new things, at least for me. This chocolate cake recipe is new to me. This has been because I’m not a fan of chocolates🍫. I always put off the idea of making anything chocolate and look for something else to do with my time. But this particular recipe changed my mind. I think I’m getting addicted 😊. How did it all get started? I’m even wondering, lol. I remember I found myself buying cocoa powder at a bakery shop and voila, I said to myself: ‘what are you going to do with this now, try making chocolate cake’. And that was a great one. It’s super simple. Plus you don’t have to cream butter and sugar (🙄 the step that I’m most lazy about in cake making). It’s more or less throwing all your ingredients together and making sure of no lumps. Really, it’s that simple. So here we go, step by step…I used:300g flour
200g sugar
1/2teaspoon salt
1/2cup vegetable oil
1cup cocoa powder
1/2tablespoon baking soda
1teaspoon baking powder
1cup buttermilk
3medium eggs
1cup boiling water

Method

>Preheat oven to 190° and grease two small cake pans
{Tip: Mix all dry ingredients in a separate bowl, and the wet ingredients in another bowl.}>Mix flour, sugar, salt, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl.>In another bowl, beat the eggs until foamy, add buttermilk and vegetable oil and mix well.>Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix well until smooth
Pour the boiling water into the mixture and stir quickly. The mixture will be runny, but it’s ok.>Pour into the prepared pans and bake for 20-25minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.Try this recipe and see for yourself why I got addicted 😋😋😋.