(Ecofin Agency) - By June 2018, the Ivorian government will launch thirty rice processing units with a yearly processing capacity of 250, 000 tons each.

This was announced by Yacouba Dembélé, managing director of the national office for rice development (ONDR), during a workshop on the rice value chain held in Abidjan from January 29 to February, 1^st, 2018.

The initiative is aimed at boosting rice processing and more generally, improving its value chain.

It is the government’s latest measure in the framework of its strategy to transform Côte d’Ivoire into a rice exporter and a self-sufficient country, by 2020.

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