Le agri-food sector or food industry¹ or even agro-industrial complex is a sector of activity corresponding to all companies in the primary sector (the farms) that produce food and secondary (thefood industry) which transform them into industrial food.

It includes two groups (not included is the part of the agricultural sector made up of farm producers and their innumerable small-volume farm products and transformations that are marketed in direct selling) :

• the agricultural sectorwhich student the livestock (medium to large herds), grows crops (arable farming) and sells the products of the farm products obtained from the agri-food industry;
• l'food industrywhich transforms livestock and cultivated plants into industrial food products.

This sector of activity has its own economy, bringing together the activities of transformation and marketing agri-food products such as dairy products industrialists.

Cultures ofagroresources for non-food purposes (pharmaceuticals, chemicals, textiles, energy), even though they are linked to sectors such as the food industry. agro-industrial remain part of this general business line.

Or factories that process agricultural produce into ready-to-eat food.

FUTUKA FARM

The FUTUKA farm

Lhe Futuka farm is located 70 km from Lubumbashi on the road to Kasenga. This is the domain of the provincial governor, Moïse Katumbi. The Group intends to set an example by investing in infrastructures agricultural to increase yields and local production on the scale of the provinceas part of the new agricultural obligation.

In this way, the long-term aim is to reduce imports while ensuring a minimum level of safety.self-sufficiency food in this particularly prosperous part of the country.

Chis domain is a kind of pilot project at the level of ecotourism and sustainable development (micro-power station which supplies the site and soon a centre of local health nearby; solar panel wells...).

The site is located along the Kashobwe River and is open to visitors. You can fish, camp and even go fishing. paintball. Animals can also be seen (antelopes, etc.).