The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Central African Republic has signed an agricultural mechanization agreement with the DSR group, based in England, according to information published on Wednesday, March 1.

The project is financed to the tune of 98 million dollars, "with the support of financial partners, for a duration of ten years," the Presidency of the Republic stated on Facebook. The agricultural mechanization project plans for the restoration and development of 335,800 hectares of arable land, mechanized support for 418,000 farming households, as well as the deployment of 850 equipped tractors and 5,925 modern agricultural tools.

It also includes the establishment of several infrastructures in the country's seven regions. This concerns, among other things; "7 cotton ginning sites, 10 wet coffee processing stations, 4 industrial cassava processing units accompanied by 100 community units, 4 milling centers, 5 cleaning plants for export," the presidency specified. It added: "in total, this program is expected to directly impact approximately 2.6 million Central African citizens."

In the Central African Republic, agriculture contributes to approximately 40% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs over 70% of the active population, according to the 2025 country report of the African Development Bank ( AfDB ).