An Excellence Centre in Organic Agriculture

Growing on An Historical Plantation.

Plan of the Presentation1. Interests of Yamoussoukro2. Type of Company3. Missions of the Company4. Social Responsability5. Components to Develop6. Operation7. Current Activities8. Priority Activities9. Impact on Employment10.Operation Team

Cocoa tree sew by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, on

June 14th 1970.

1. Interests of Yamoussoukro

• Administrative Capitale of Côte d’Ivoire• Located on major international roads (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger)• Airport• Numerous tourists attractions (Basilic, Fundation FHB, lakes with

caimans, Presidential residence, etc.)• High agricultural and forestry potential (cocoa, coffee, rice, hevea,

traditional kitchen cultures, cultures vivrières traditionnelles, fish breeding, etc.

2. Type of Company

Development and exploitation of sites to promote economic development

through organic agriculture.

• Agriculture• Industry• Trade• Science• Ecotourisme

Fields of Activities Sites d’implantation

At 25 km of Yamoussoukro, the Plantation de Toumbokro: 2 000 ha consecrated to agricultural exploitation

In the Centre of Yamoussoukro, the Parc de Guiglo: 101 hadedicated to ecotouristic activities

3. Missions of the Company

• To develop the agricultural sector, at large• To create jobs, especially among the youth,

through valorisation of the landed heritage• To offer infrastructures and facilities for the

implementation of projects• To heighten about ecological matters• To train on agricultural matters• To promote the applyed agricultural search

4. Social Responsibility• National and international challenges to take up (food

security, reducing poverty, peace preservation…)

• An inheritance to preserve and to develop

• An agricultural potential to develop

• Scientific knowledge to generate and to exploit

• Sustainable development based on organic agriculture as intervention axis

• Integration of the gender component to the actions

5.1.2 Cultural Facilities

• Open-air cinema

• Open-air theatre

• Center for interpretation of Agropôle Yamoussoukro’s site (ecotourisme and scientific promotion)

• Museum (history, cocoa, agriculture,

ecology)

Boigny d’Or, chocolate made of organic cocoa

from Toumbokro.

5.1.3 Ecotouristic Facilities

• Synoptic kitchen garden for food self-suffiency and professionnal integration

• Plantation of cocoa, coffee, cola, and other fruits trees

• Thematic hotel complex• Catering area• Handworking village• Shuttle for scenic tour (Toumbokro,

Yamoussoukro, région des Lacs)• Small breeding farm and wild animals park

5.1.3 Ecotouristic Facilities (next)

• Lake for aquatic birds• Tracks (footing, biking, skating)• Picnic tables and park benches• Reception area• Playgroond for children• Paddling and swimming pool• Tennis court

5. Components to Develop5.1 Parc de Guiglo

5.1.1 Administrative Facilities

• Bioclimatical administrative building

• Infirmary/Health center

• Restaurant

Reception under the cocoa trees.

• Spaces for offices• Institut professionnel agricole (fundamental

training – BT, BTS –, functional litteracy, reinforcement of capacities)

• Institutions and laboratories for research• Light industrial structures• Microcredit institution• Trading structures• Women center

5.2 Plantation de Toumbokro5.2.1 Core of Agropôle

Lake for irrigation and pump in Toumbokro.

5.2.2 Structural Facilities

• Resources and information center

• Editing and photocopying center

• Shuttle service (Toumbokro-Yamoussoukro)

House of the Gouvernor of Félix Houphouët-Boigny’s plantation.

5.2.3 Research Center

• Plantations (inside and outside the site of Agropôle Yamoussoukro, discussion to reach agreement)

• Halieutic resources center (inside the site)• Experimental farm (inside the site)• Parks, reserves and listed forests

(discussion to reach agreement, new sites to set up)

Installation for cocoa bean fermentation.

6. Operation

• Development and setting up of activities owned by the company

• Hosting of investors’companies• Search of partners (technical, financial)• Stimulation of enterprises setting up thanks to a

business incubator and microfinancial facilities

7. Current Activities

• Since three years, rehabilitation of cocoa and coffee plantations

• Production and certification (BioAgricert) of organic cocoa

• Partenership for the transformation of our cocoa in chocolate (ICAM-Italy)

• Setting up of workers’cooperatives• Projects studies realised• Search for financial suport and partners

Un sac de fèves de cacao biologique de Toumbokro prêt à être exporté.

7. Current Activities (next)

8. Priority ActivitiesVegetal Productions• Rehabilitation of the cocoa end coffee plantation and of the transformation units• Setting up of roasting and packaging units for coffee• Raising of the rice production• Setting up of a farm for mushroom, aromatic and medicinal plants

Animals Breeding• Good layer breeding for the production of eggs for the consummers• Honey factory• Snails breeding• Tilapia breeding

Agro-industries• Units to transform kitchen garden productions (drying and caning)• Drying and smoking units for halieutic productions

Services• Setting up a microcredit institution (MECACI) • Beginning the construction of the hotel complex• Beginning activities linked to the Professional Institute for Agriculture

9. Impact on Employment

• Parc de Guiglo

Setting up step: 400 persons

Normal operation: 300 persons

Training in the kitchen garden: Insertion of

120 up to 150 persons/year

• Plantation de Toumbokro

Normal operation:

about 100 agricultural, food-processing or other businesses, management of the animal reserve and of the breeding space:

1000 persons

Rice-growing: 900 persons

Professional Institute for Agriculture (teaching and non-teaching staff): 150 persons

Total: 3000 jobs

Worker carrying organic cocoa beans to the fermentation unit.

10. Operation Team

Exploitation Technical DirectionTo appoint

Agricultural – Breeding – Search Technical Direction

Jean-Pierre ASSOUMOU

Animal and Forest Conservation Direction

Captain GOORE (Water and Forest)

Juridical Direction

Hippolyte KONAN

Computering Services Direction

Charles K. YAO

General Administrator

André Sholmès YAO

General Secretary

Bruno HAIRE

Engeering Direction (Facilities and Maintenance)

To appoint

Commercial and Financial Direction

Bruno HAIRE (provisoire)

Public Relations and Formation

Lara LANGLAIS

BP 2544 Yamoussoukro

République de Côte d’Ivoire

Tél.:+ (225) 30 64 16 47

Fax: + (225) 30 64 18 85

Cel.: + (225) 09 21 90 90 / 05 39 86 29

www.cooperation.net/agropoleykro