Agrople FlixHouphoutBoigny de Yamoussoukro

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An Excellence Centre in Organic
Agriculture Growing on An Historical Plantation.
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Plan of the Presentation

• Interests of Yamoussoukro
• Type of Company
• Missions of the Company
• Social Responsability
• Components to Develop
• Operation
• Current Activities
• Priority Activities
• Impact on Employment
• Operation Team

Cocoa tree sew by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, on June
14th 1970.
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1. Interests of Yamoussoukro

• Administrative Capitale of Côte dIvoire
• 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.

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2. Type of Company

• Development and exploitation of sites to
  promote economic development through organic
  agriculture.

Fields of Activities
Sites dimplantation
In the Centre of Yamoussoukro, the Parc de
Guiglo 101 ha dedicated to ecotouristic
activities

• Agriculture
• Industry
• Trade
• Science
• Ecotourisme

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

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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

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5.1.2 Cultural Facilities

• Open-air cinema
• Open-air theatre
• Center for interpretation of Agropôle
  Yamoussoukros site (ecotourisme and scientific
  promotion)
• Museum (history, cocoa, agriculture,
• ecology)

Boigny dOr, chocolate made of organic cocoa from
Toumbokro.
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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

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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

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5. Components to Develop5.1 Parc de Guiglo5.1.1
Administrative Facilities

• Bioclimatical administrative building
• Infirmary/Health center
• Restaurant

Reception under the cocoa trees.
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5.2 Plantation de Toumbokro 5.2.1 Core of Agropôle

• 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

Lake for irrigation and pump in Toumbokro.
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5.2.2 Structural Facilities

• Resources and information center
• Editing and photocopying center
• Shuttle service (Toumbokro-Yamoussoukro)

House of the Gouvernor of Félix
Houphouët-Boignys plantation.
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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.
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6. Operation

• Development and setting up of activities owned by
  the company
• Hosting of investorscompanies
• Search of partners (technical, financial)
• Stimulation of enterprises setting up thanks to a
  business incubator and microfinancial facilities

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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 workerscooperatives
• Projects studies realised
• Search for financial suport and partners

Un sac de fèves de cacao biologique de Toumbokro
prêt à être exporté.
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7. Current Activities (next)
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8. Priority Activities

• Vegetal 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

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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.
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10. Operation Team
Exploitation Technical Direction To
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
dIvoire Tél. [phone] Fax (225)
30 64 18 85 Cel. (225) 09 21 90 90 / 05 39 86
29 www.cooperation.net/agropoleykro