It’s done. Cote d’Ivoire’s cocoa output has passed two million tonnes, President Alassane Ouattara announced last Wednesday. By exceeding this volume which the country had been aiming at for years, it further strengthens its position as global number one cocoa producer. However, the feat is achieved at quite the inopportune time. Indeed, after various actors of the cocoa industry forecast...

Mali’s rice output for the 2016-17 season stood at 2.81 million metric tons. This is 20% more than what the nation produced the previous season thus exceeding government’s initial forecast, Reuters reports. The West African country indeed forecast an output of 2.71 million Mt of paddy rice this season after recording 2.33 million Mt in 2015-16. Now, the farmers’ performance provided the...

Morocco and Senegal have reinforced their partnership in agriculture by signing yesterday agreements at a ceremony to which were present King Mohammed VI and Senegal’s President Macky Sall. The agreement according to Aziz Akhannouch, Morocco’s minister of agriculture is for a programme under which “Morocco is to provide Senegal its expertise and financial support so to develop its...

Ivorian authorities are determined to gain more ground in their fight to secure land titles for rural populations. The central part of the country, Bouaké especially, is currently being informed about the issue. The new information operation comes after a sensitization tour organized last July and which included the region. Cote d’Ivoire’s chief of rural land office, Delbé Constant, now...

In order to insure food safety for the 28,000 Sudanese refugees who ran from the Darfur and moved in the Farchana arid region, in Eastern Chad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Lutheran World Federation had implemented a land sharing project with local farmers. This initiative turned out to be successful. “We had agreed to share our lands with refugees because we...

In a statement published on its website, non-lucrative international organization Grain denounced pressures on local communities in Congo by Feronia Inc, a Canadian firm owned in majority by European and American development banks, to abandon their right to lands. “Over the past days, Feronia Inc. has been putting a lot of pressure on local communities so that they sign a term of reference...

In Angola, Global Solutions will inject $113 million in the construction of an industrial complex which will be dedicated to the production of cooking oil and soap made from oil-production by-products. According to Krisne Dambi, who heads the project, the infrastructure will be able to produce daily, 100,000 litres of oil and 100 tons of soap. After the contract for the project was signed...

Djibouti has invested $20 million in fruit imports from Uganda. “My government has set aside $100m specifically to import fruit products from within the region but we decided that Uganda gets part of this deal so that the farmers can benefit directly from this venture,” said Muhammad Majyambere, the Djibouti consul to Uganda. After welcoming the initiative, the members of the...

Senegalese businessman, Babacar Ngom, announced he will expand his group, Sedima, to Congo. We found in Congo partners with whom we intend to invest, develop in the country an agricultural sector which will be able to meet the population’s needs, a competitive sector which will generate jobs and wealth, he said. Sedima’s move towards Congo is its first step outside the local market, which...

Tanzania plans to invest $3 billion to build a fertilizer-producing unit. This project is the fruit of a partnership with a consortium of German, Danish and Pakistani investors, Reuters reports. “This factory which will be Africa’s biggest in terms of fertilizer production, will produce 3,800 tons of fertilizer each day and employ up to 5,000 people,” said the country’s presidency...