00:00 When there is passion, no matter how difficult it is, we never give up.
00:03 And at Songo Elevage, the idea of giving up, it even crosses our minds.
00:07 Songo Elevage is an agricultural company that evolves on the side of farming.
00:17 We do agriculture, aquaculture and cattle breeding, but we focus more on agriculture.
00:25 Here we can have chicken, both short and long cycle.
00:32 And usually, hen and hen.
00:36 In 2019, I had acquired 13 local chickens.
00:42 Then I had 8 stolen and 5 left.
00:45 And it was with the 5 that I started.
00:48 After that flight, 3-4 months later, I had almost 50 chickens.
00:55 So from that level, I said to myself, why not launch myself on a large scale.
01:01 When we acquired the land to start on a large scale in 2021, we had put in 750 chickens.
01:10 Then we went to 1,750.
01:13 Then we went to 2,200.
01:15 And now we have a capacity that varies between 4,500 and 5,000 chickens.
01:20 It was with insecurity that we were forced to repatriate our families to Ouagadougou.
01:34 Being a salaryman in general and functional, it is often not easy to join both.
01:42 So you have to have something that will come either daily or weekly or monthly
01:50 to be able to add to what you have as a salary to try to join both.
01:54 I am a farmer.
02:03 I have been working for a long time.
02:07 I have been working for a long time.
02:09 I have been working for a long time.
02:14 I have been working for a long time.
02:20 There was a time when we lost more than 2,000 chickens in one shot.
02:30 There are times when living species die, but it is not to be discouraged and to plan.
02:36 When you have the failure to build on it to be able to go back up.
02:41 And that's what we did.
02:42 The idea of abandonment does not even cross our minds.
02:46 We have goals to achieve and if we have life and God facilitates it, we will achieve them.
02:51 What I also wanted to add to the youth is that at some point you have to accept,
03:02 sacrifice yourself for a while and then you can do whatever you want.
03:08 Since we started, we have friends who do a lot of things that we can imitate.
03:16 But we decided not to imitate them, to sacrifice ourselves,
03:19 to have another source of income before wanting to live like the others.
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