URFBV

The Regional Union of the Livestock-Meat Sector (Union Régionale de la filière Bétail Viande, or URFBV) in Sikasso is a union of 111 cooperatives throughout the region’s seven cercles. It was founded in 1995 and currently has 3,271 members, including 71 women. Its main activity is to develop the farming and marketing of livestock. Its members include livestock farmers, sellers, finishers, dairy producers and hide and leather merchants.