Côte d'Ivoire wants to develop the secondary processing of its agricultural products and achieve food self-sufficiency as the “engine of French-speaking Africa in L& Africa” rsquo; Ouest”, with strong growth over the past 10 years.

As part of the Export Agro Days organized by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Co-organized with Business France and other partners including FranceAgriMer, nine webinars took place, including the 7th ^He focused on Côte d'Ivoire and mainly on the theme “ What opportunities for the agricultural sector in Côte d'Ivoire? ”. Indeed, agriculture is at the heart of the Ivorian problem. Thus, it represents about 60% of the country's exports and a quarter of its GDP; about 20% of its budget revenue comes from exported cocoa beans alone. According to the counsellor for agricultural affairs at the French embassy in Abidjan, Jean-Pierre Chomienne, while oil activity emerges, Côte d'Ivoire remains “very strongly agri dependent.”

En réalité, le pays est un acteur majeur sur les marchés mondiaux avec les filières Cocoa, cola, cashew, banana, palm oil, rubber, etc. However, an economic fabric is still very well organized The country is largely informal, constituting disadvantages but also advantages at a time when the Ivorian government has food sovereignty as its main objective. Thus, the government has decided to no longer distinguish between export crops and food crops but to include them, without distinction, into commercial or economic systems and that the maximum amount of added value be made on the national territory, adds Jean-Pierre Chomienne in order to tackle this challenge.