Work to create the first industrial zone for processing cashew nuts and cashew apples in Bondoukou, in eastern Côte d'Ivoire, will start in the next few days, announced to APA on d Director General of the Cotton and Cashew Council (CCA), Adama Coulibaly. It should be completed by the end of the year or early 2022.
“ The Bondoukou industrial zone will cover an area of 15 hectares for a production target according to the capacity of the factories that will be set up. The area can absorb between three and five cashew processing units. After that of Bondoukou, we will have the works of the industrial zone of Korhogo (25 ha) and Séguéla in the north of the country then of Bouaké (25 ha) in the center, ”he told the agency. hurry.
Processors will be able to benefit from total exemption from import duty on equipment as well as tax credits. In addition, a subsidy of FCFA 400 per kilo of almonds leaving the factory will be allocated.
The head of the CCA recalled the existence of the Cashew Nut Innovation and Technology Center (CITA), inaugurated in Yamoussoukro on October 1. It includes a processing plant of 6,000 tonnes per year, a training center for production and advanced training.
According Commodafrica