The development of the palm oil sector has been achieved through two plans palm trees that have been implemented through an integrated production management center was the PALMINDUSTRIE. The company flew the creation of new areas at both the industrial plan that villagers, was responsible for extensions and replanting, collection and purchase plans, production and marketing of crude palm oil .
leading palm has made over the period 1963 to 1985. It was designed as an agricultural diversification program. This plan has achieved 75 681 ha of palm (47 943 ha of industrial plantations and 27,737 ha of village plantations), oil mills and create the Extension Fund and Renewal Fund (ERF). The overall cost of the plan was estimated at 19.251 billion in funding from several donors (EDF, IBRD, CCCE, BNP).
The second plan palm was carried out from 1986 to 1990. At a cost of 33 billion CFA francs. It has achieved 67 500 ha of plantations (17 700 ha of industrial plantations and 49,800 ha of village plantations) and two oil mills cosntruire (Blidouba and Neka).
In 1990, there was the withdrawal of the state in the productive sector to the private sector, which led to the liquidation of several parastatals. Thus, the PALMINDUSTRIE will be sold in 1996 to three private companies (PALMCI, and PALMAFRIQUE SIPEFCI).
The privatization of PALMINDUSTRIE contributed to a reshaping of the sector with the entry of agribusiness companies and the creation of cooperatives.
face of failures compounded by the lack of preparatory measures for the privatization and the impact of lower world prices in particular, the reorganization of the sector has proven indispensable.
Thus, during the National Workshop on the palm oil sector held in Grand Bassam of 17 to 19 September 2002, a new axis of development of the sector has been proposed with such major provisions: