WEF_GrowAfrica_AnnualReport2014

Forward Look
Forward Look
FORWARD LOOK
Investment and Partnering Opportunities
PRIORITIES FOR PROGRESS
Partnership and investment key to strengthening
value chains for priority crops
Further developing PPPs and facilitating private-sector
investment have been identified by the GoCI as key to
unlocking agricultural growth in the country. In order
to foster these, the following focus areas and priorities
have been ascertained for the year ahead:
Enhancing the enabling environment
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Development and adoption of the Agricultural
Orientation Law by the Cabinet and the National
Assembly.
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Supporting implementation of the Rural Land Law
and clarifying the status of former governmentowned
concessions, with resolution of the land
tenure issue being a prerequisite for achieving the
GoCI’s ambitions to boost agricultural growth. A
World Bank- and EU-supported initial pilot phase
has enabled an implementation framework for the
law to be set up and launched, and has resulted in
measures to secure land in 103 localities. Greater
resources are nevertheless still needed to extend
these efforts to the entire country.
Fostering private-sector investment
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Providing support to value-chain stakeholders
to finalise and implement a sector-specific selffinancing
strategy for pooling resources, and a
funding strategy for commercial farms and inclusive
business models.
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Further developing feasibility studies and projects by
value chain.
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Developing comprehensive studies on
competitiveness and statistics and data per industry
sector and per cluster.
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Setting up a system to fast-track the development
of SMEs, while identifying the needs and type of
support required.
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Further strengthening infrasructure to enable access
to markets across the country, and in particular so as
to reconnect the Northern and Southern regions.
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Promoting further investment in irrigation schemes
and infrastructure.
Promoting a value-chain approach and
diversification
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Encouraging enhanced diversification of agricultural
production.
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Supporting the promotion of cotton, cashew and
rice as key value chains, which could potentially be
scaled up to a level comparable to cocoa and coffee.
Along with cotton, cashew has gained considerable
importance, with Côte d’Ivoire now being the
second-largest producer after India, and with
aspirations of increasing production up to 600,000
tonnes by 2016 and reaching a target of 35% local
processing as opposed to the current 5%.
The following investment opportunities have been
identified by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire:
Maize production boost to meet variegated
demand
Investments are sought in a project aimed at producing
an additional 300,000 tonnes of maize per year to meet
the needs of different categories of users within Côte
d’Ivoire, including industrial animal feed manufacturers,
breeders, brewers and consumers, as well as to fill
sub-regional demand.
SME cashew transformation initiative
Support is required for a project working to develop
small-scale processing units for cashew transformation
by SMEs and establish incentives for the operation,
the overall aim being to create 80 husking units with a
2,500-tonne capacity and 32,000 jobs by 2015.
Establishment of rice poles to serve
growing local demand
Domestic rice consumption is increasing steadily by
6% a year, with domestic production unable to meet
the demand, resulting in an export dependency of up
to 64% in 2009. With a view to tapping into this import
substitution opportunity, investor interest is sought in
a rice poles project aimed at supporting production
(with access to inputs, irrigation schemes, improved
crop management and agricultural research), agroprocessing
and marketing, so as to enable domestic
production to be boosted to 1.9 million tonnes by
2016. The establishment of a food security stock is
also envisaged.
Land rehabilitation and development for
rice and vegetable crops
Further resources are required to progress a project
for the rehabilitation and development of 100,000
ha of lowlands for rice cultivation and 10,000 ha for
vegetable production, the expected outcomes being
production of approximately 1 million tonnes of paddy
rice and 100,000 tonnes of vegetables, as well as the
creation of around 200,000 jobs for farmers.
Rehabilitation of ranches and breeding
stations
Only five of ten livestock ranches and breeding stations
forming part of a rehabilitation project spanning various
regions of the country are currently operational. Further
investments are sought to restore these farms to
operation for the production of sheep, beef and dairy
products.
Points of contact for investments
Nouhoun Coulibaly
Director General, Directorate General for Planning,
Project Control and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture |
couln@yahoo.com
Djiakariya Coulibaly
Director for Planning and Programmes,
Ministry of Animal and Fishery Resources |
djiakariyac@yahoo.fr
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