Under the auspices of AGRO4LIFE, the operation will include seven broiler farms, a slaughtering complex with a capacity of 60,000 birds per week equipped with a protein recovery plant and a wastewater treatment plant.
Based on the initiative of local entrepreneur, Olivier K. Ban, the projects’s objective is to help meet the growing regional demand for poultry products, which is relies mostly on imports. The complex itself will be built on 50 hectares of land in Toumodi, next to the Abidjan-Yamoussoukro highway and is expected to generate roughly 600 jobs.
Agrotop has provided the design and engineering and will supply and construct the entire project. Additionally, its financiers have assembled the complete financial package by syndicating development and commercial banks. The agro-industrial complex will be managed and the workers trained by Agrotop and B.R.M. experts.
Infrastructure work has already started and the facilities are expected to become fully operational in early 2022.
Olivier Ban stated that, “Agrotop has assisted us in each step we made since the day we began exploring the possibility of entering the poultry market. The company helped us in drafting the business plan, financing and executing it and will help us obtain the required knowledge and experience required to succeed in such an ambitious project.”
“The poultry market in West Africa, in general, and the Ivory Coast, in particular, has immense potential for future growth,” said Gavriel Pelleg, Agrotop’s CMO and founding partner. “African countries wish to become more self-sufficient and Agrotop is proud to be one of the leading companies helping local entrepreneurs in realizing their dream of building sustainable large-scale poultry projects.
“It has been remarkable to witness how Mr. Ban has managed to overcome all obstacles and turn his vision into reality.”
Source: https://www.feedstuffs.com/news/agrotop-construct-large-broiler-project-ivory-coast
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