IVORY COAST: Development of a mechanism for setting the price of small out-growers’ sugarcane and feasibility study of its payment to quality

Project description

The study had been implemented within the framework of the Sugar sector support program of Côte d’Ivoire.

The program has two main components:

• Implementation of a stable land ownership framework in order to secure the development of sugarcane production;
• Specific development actions devoted to support small-growers’ sugarcane production that target roads infrastructures development, crop husbandry and a better organization of small-growers’ production.

Services provided

The study was conducted in three phases (documentary, field and final phase) and focused on the following aspects:

• Diagnosis of the current pricing of outgrowers’ sugar cane;
• Design of a mechanism for setting the price of outgrowers’ canes (proposal of mechanisms and pricing key factors);
• Feasibility study for implementing a quality-based payment system;
• Proposals to reorganize sugar cane harvest from outgrowers’ and private producers’ farms;
• Pre-feasibility study for setting harvesting platforms receiving outgrower’s and private producers’ sugar canes.

CA 17 international provided:

• One international Sugar Cane expert, Team Leader,
• One national expert, technician specialist of agro-industrial sugar complexes.