The sale of bananas on the markets of the commune of Ibanda town of Bukavu is one of sectors of creation of abstract jobs in favour of the disadvantaged social groups, left for account, among the population of this city, namely the stripped women, the unemployed young people, the not provided education for girls, etc. This activity deserves to be modernized, structured, to be organized and supported by the organizations as well public as private so that it becomes really a true fish pond of employment to the profit of honest of this urban and rural population that it employs.
Provincial and central government urban development policies should be geared towards solving material (insufficient commercial infrastructure, commercial facilities), fiscal and financial constraints (excessive taxation on small banana sellers and resellers, insufficient capital, difficult access to credit for small sellers and small retailers), commercial, economic, administrative and social constraints, which small sellers and sellers of dessert bananas, sweet bananas and plantains working in this commune face on a daily basis. This research reveals that three main units of measurement are present in the markets: main bananas, a banana, and the banana diet, but they are not standardized. Among them, the hand is the most applied unit in all markets.
They are the abstract markets, decentralized markets, markets of streets which know a great passion of the applicants and record the greatest quantities of sale of bananas. The soft bananas and plantains are bought in commune of Ibanda compared to bananas serves. The quantities sold by the women would be almost the same ones as those sold by the men.
The factors of limitation of the performance of the die banana in commune of Ibanda are: the abusive tax on the small salesmen and soft banana retailers, plantains and serves, the dubious and insufficient customers, the insufficiency of the fixed places in the markets and strategic sites of the city to contain all the salesmen, the bulk-heading of the markets and sites of sale, the means of transport used by the small banana retailers.
The reversal of the situation of supply of the town of Bukavu with food and non-food products in favor of local products, is a matter which obliges the emergence of the policies of incentives and facilitation of the marketing of agricultural products. It is no secret that in South Kivu, the agro-pastoral sector no longer produces products capable of meeting the demand of an ever-growing population in the city of Bukavu. It is also observed that very often the prices received by agricultural producers hardly encourage them to increase agricultural production. On the other hand, sellers and resellers, as well as consumers in the city of Bukavu are turned to outside products. Suddenly, mistrust of products from the territories of South Kivu increases as a result of the qualitative and quantitative mediocrity which does not favor their commercial promotion.
The supply of the city of Bukavu with food and non-food products from the territories of the province of South Kivu faces the following main difficulties: the advanced deterioration of transport infrastructure, the lack of transport equipment, costs and high transport costs compared to products purchased abroad (in Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, etc.) for 26.6% of respondents; commercial, social, administrative and fiscal harassment in the rural and Bukavu markets, the indifference of services and public authorities to the problems of marketing local agricultural products, for 21.6% of respondents, and the instability of supplies in the territories, the unavailability of various lots of desired products, the poor quality of certain local products, the strong competition from outside products (from North Kivu, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, etc.) for 25% of respondents.
The constantly growing demand of the city of Bukavu for food products must play a driving role for the increase of agricultural production at the provincial level, provided that the supply circuits in the various sectors are organized in a rational manner. It would take a synergy effort for the supply of Bukavu with food and non-food products from the territories of South Kivu to be profitable, resilient and sustainable.