Côte d'Ivoire in search of its industrial revolution

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Preparing cashew nuts for drying in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (photo illustration).

AFP / Sia Kambou

By: Stanislas Ndayishimiye

21 min

To develop its industrial sector, Côte d'Ivoire is embarking on the processing of agricultural products.

There are still twenty years, the Ivory Coast had little in the cashew sector, it is today the first world producer of cashew nuts.

Today, how is this sector developing on which the country relies heavily? 

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Côte d'Ivoire in search of its industrial revolution, a major report by Stanislas Ndayishimiye

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