MEMBERS
FENACOPAH-CI, set up on 15 April 2003, is under the management of Mr. Karamokogbè Bamba, its Chairman.
It consists of 36,500 farmers organised in a thirty (30) or so cooperatives, operating 167,500 ha of farms referred to as village farms, totalling an annual production of 800,000 tons of oil-palm fruit clusters.
The responsibilities of FENACOPAH-CI include:
- contributing to the national policy on oil-palm;
- representing farmers; members and users; with inter-professionals, the Government, development partners and specialised institutions;
- providing technical, administrative and financial assistance to Cooperatives;
- seeking funding for expansion, creation, replanting and processing programmes on behalf of cooperatives;
- ensuring cohesion, promotion and development of cooperatives; and;
- sustaining the restoration on the national territory of a fair and reasonable price for all producers.
APROSAPCI, being under the management of its chairman Mr. BEHI Léopold, encompasses such companies as PALMCI, PALMAFRIQUE, SIPEF-CI, SOGB, ADAMAFRIQUE, COSAV, including other oil-mills which are as follows:
- Fifteen or so (15) oil mills with 20 to 90 tons/hour processing capacity;
- Thirty or so (30) oil mills with 1 to 5 tons/ hour processing capacity;
- About 1,700,000 tons of fruit clusters are processed per year, 40% of which are provided by industrial farms (PI);
- An annual production of raw palm oil about 360,000 tons and 60,000 tons of palm kernel oil.
GITHP,being under the management of its Chairman Mr. Bertrand Vignes, coming after Mr. Yves LAMBELIN, the Builder, includes raw palm oil refinery industries, which are:
- SANIA
- UOC (United Oil Company)
- ADAMAFRIQUE
- COSAV
- UNILEVER
The national Agricultural Research Centre of Cote d'Ivoire was set up in 1998 following the dissolution of several research bodies (IDEFOR, IDESSA, CIRT) in order to better coordinate agricultural research so to achieve the best results.
The agricultural research activity is carried out by highly experienced researchers having graduated from prestigious universities and research institutes.
CNRA conducts 20 research programmes including oil palm the goals of which are about:
- improving oil-palm productivity;
- improving palm oil quality;
- capacity building aiming at the industry partners.
CNRA is involved in the execution of research programmes validated by the industry partners.
Restructured in accordance with the 26 June 2008 Decree No.2008-214, FER aims at contributing either directly or indirectly to the funding, development, restoration of and improvement in oil-palm cultivation.
It is under the management of a Director, a Management Board, a Budget Control Manager and an Accounting Officer. The current Director thereof is Mr. Assohoun Noël.