SeyFa launches youth steering committee and commercial enterprise

SeyFa launches youth steering committee and commercial enterprise

09-April-2016
A youth steering committee for the Seychelles Farmers’ Association (SeyFa) was launched during its strategic consultation and annual general Mr Benstrong addressing the gatheringmeeting on Wednesday afternoon.
The theme of the meeting was ‘Developing strong agri value chain to become bankable small scale agriculture entrepreneurs’.
The gathering was held at Maison De Football, Roche Caiman in the presence of members of the association and fellow farmers.
Derick Amade, a 36-year-old farmer who has two farms, one situated at La Misère and the other at Bel Ombre, is the leader of the youth steering committee.
He said this group has been formed with the aim of attracting more youths to the association and revamp the agricultural sector.
“We want to bring Seychelles agriculture industry back to the heights it was at 20 years ago and make young people understand the importance of farming,” he said.
The committee now has only four members and they are still looking for more to join them.
During the meeting there was also the launch of SeyFa Agric Enterprise which has been set up to face marketing challenges of SeyFa.
SeyFa chairman Serge Benstrong said it will enable the members supply their products in an organised fashion with standards.
There will be a management board set up to chair the enterprise.
There were various presentations including the chairman’s report for 2014, audited financial report for 2013, work plan budget for 2016, the Co-operatives Act, the business plan and the resolutions.
The SeyFa executive committee was also expected to be elected on that day but due to lack of quorum it has been postponed to a new date which will be communicated to the members later.

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Serge Benstrong re-elected SeyFa chairman

19-April-2016
Serge Benstrong has been re-elected to serve another two-year mandate as chairman of the Seychelles Farmers Association.

During the election which took place on Thursday at the Roche Caïman community centre, other members were also elected to serve on the executive committee.

They are Kisnan Louise as vice-chairman, David Marie and Andre Sopha as treasurer and secretary respectively.

Three ordinary members were also elected and they are Andre William, Jean Mellie, and Rose-Marie Emond. A young farmer representative, Derick Amade, was also nominated on the committee.

During the meeting, Mr Benstrong said he is planning to retire at the end of this mandate and added that during the next two years he will be focusing mainly on setting up the new agricultural enterprise.
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