Promoting the products and by-products of paddy for an inclusive economy

About the partnership

Côte d'Ivoire

Staple Crops

The ambition of this partnership is to include about 15,000 small rice producers in the value chains that are strengthened and made competitive by promoting the use of by-products and secondary products from paddy processing. The idea of this partnership is also to make nutritious rice-based products (parboiled rice, whole rice and infant flours) accessible to low-income consumers.

About the business champion

This partnership union (multi-champion) brings together the same kind of actors in the rice value chain (processors) with similar business models and terms of inclusion. These companies are a sole limited liability companies operating in the processing of paddy and the marketing of white rice with very little or no enhancement of all products from the processing of paddy. This processors union includes: Locagri sarl, Sopril-CI sarl, CAPI sarl, Katio-Akpa sarl and Espoir riz du Cavally sarl.

Key interventions

Professionalization of rice producers by improving the production quality and quantity

Support for the promotion of secondary and by-products from the processing of paddy

Facilitation of access to finance for actors in the partnership

15, 000 farmers (women, men and youth) targeted and supported within 5 clusters

XXX SMEs involved in the partnership

9 producer organisations involved

XXXX private sector co-investment

25, 000 BoP consumers with improved access to nutritious food

Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the Inclusive Agribusiness Advisor.

E-mail Korotoum COULIBALY

Inclusive Agribusiness Advisor

	Korotoum COULIBALY
	kcoulibaly@2scale.org

Project partners

PKL, NIACI, NUTRIMIAM, GLP les Précuits, Rama Céréales

Manufacturers of infant flour made of local raw materials including rice (especially low flour)

Koudjis Distribution Society, Marydav, IVOGRAIN

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UNACOOPEC-CI, Fondation CLARMONDIAL

Financial institution that operationalizes the structured financing mechanism defined by the national rice sector development strategy. Finacial and technical support supplier in Agribooster project with OCP and Syngenta

BAYER, SYNGENTA, OCP (projet Agribooster), CORTEVA, AFRICARICE, CropIn

Suppliers of Seeds, plants protection products, fertilizers, technical protection for products, traceability services and innovative rice production techniques

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