Ivorian agriculture: the tools of growth

By: Sayouba Traoré

Côte d'Ivoire is a country that has based its country's economy on agriculture. However, the various players today want to make the most of these potentials. This is what we will see on the Ivory Coast stand, at the Paris International Agricultural Show 2020.

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Coffee and cocoa are the basic export products. However, the proportion of coffee processed by the local agro-industry is very low: from 3.6% in 2001-2002, it fell to 2% of total production in 2003-2004. For cocoa, Côte d'Ivoire is, with 40% of production, the world's leading producer, ahead of Ghana. The proportion of cocoa processed by the local agro-industry represents almost 20% of total production in 2003-2004. Ivory Coast became in 2016 the world's leading cocoa bean grinder, ahead of the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. In the north of the country, cotton cultivation is the most widely practiced since 40 to 50% of the cultivated land is sown with cotton. However, this cotton is mainly intended for export to European countries.

In the area of ​​food crops, the main crops used for local consumption are, according to statistics established in 2004: corn with 608,032 tonnes on 278,679 hectares; rice with a production of 673,006 tonnes on a cultivated area of ​​340,856 hectares; yam with 4,970,949 tonnes on 563,432 hectares; cassava with 2,047,064 tonnes on 269,429 hectares; plantains with 1,519,716 tonnes on 433,513 hectares. Côte d'Ivoire also produces millet, sorghum, fonio, peanuts, sweet potatoes, taro. At this level also, there are shortcomings which make the inability of national productions to meet the needs of local consumption leads to the import of large quantities of some of these products.

Guests
- Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani , Minister of Agriculture of the Ivory Coast.
- Mrs. Kouassi Flore Lago , director of training in the department of agricultural development and professional organizations at the National Chamber of Agriculture of Côte d'Ivoire
- Dembélé Ardiouma , director of the National Laboratory for Agricultural Development Support.

Production: Sayouba Traoré
Production: Ewa Piedel

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