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VOL 1 - ISSUES: 64 & 65
AUGUST
15 - OCTOBER 14, 2004
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Issue
Editor: Dr. Bienvenu-Magloire Quenum
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WORD FROM THE EDITOR
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Dear visitor and international investor,
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THIS DELIVERY STANDS FOR TWO ISSUES
AFRICABIZ Online's Editorial Team is taking one month break from September
1 to September 30. Therefore, this delivery covers two months: August 15 to September
14 - Issue N° 64; and September 15 to October 14 - Issue N° 65. The next
issue N° 66 will be online on October 15, 2004.
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FACTS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OPINIONS
Africabiz
Online dedicated several deliveries to explain Ivory Coast's political crisis
(43, 57
and type "ivory coast political crisis" in the Search Africabiz'
field at the left panel of this page to get listing of all articles related to
the matter).
The origin the crisis was traced back to the
rivalry between Bedie and Ouattara for the succession of Ivory Coast's founder,
president Houphouet Boigny.
According to rumors, during
the last international gathering to ending the imbroglio, the former opponents
seem to bury the war hatchet and may be planing for a political alliance for the
forthcoming presidential ballot of end 2005.
After 10 years of bad assessment
of facts, Ivorian politicians are now seeing the light. Indeed, they displayed
poor leadership in crisis management and brought the country to its knees for
political ambitions that do not have vision. Consequently, several thousand
of people had been killed, sociologic relationship between Southerners and Northerners
severely damaged and the economy debased. Click
here to read about: Facts, Opinions And Decision Making
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Contributor's Guidelines
are here to review. Your contribution on "How African countries
/ entrepreneurs could bridge the developing gap" is welcome.
Many thanks for dropping by and see you here on October 15, 2004.
Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
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BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
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SHEA BUTTER ( 5,
6, 7,
11, 12,
13)
b- BLUE GOLD ( 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19)
c- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN ( 20,
21, 22
and here)
d-
KENAF ( 23,
24)
e- VEGETABLE OIL ( 25,
26, 27,
28)
f- CEREALS ( 30,
31, 32,
33)
g- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
h- ESSENTIAL OILS (47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52)
i- ROOTS & TUBERS 54,
55, 56,
57, 58,
59, 60,
61, 62,
63)
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TROPICAL ROOTS AND TUBERS: PART VIII
- CONCLUSION: SUMMARY ABOUT ROOTS AND TUBERS AS ECONOMIC CATALYSTS
Cassava, potato, and
sweet potato rank
among the top 10 food crops produced in developing countries. Sub-Saharan
Africa - SSA - is expected to experience the fastest growth in food demand
for all roots and tubers, largely driven by rapid population's growth. SSA
share in the total demand for developing countries will be 53 percent, with cassava
accounting for two-thirds of the increase.
Here are listed four processed cassava's products, which highlight the fact
that cassava could be an important components - an Economic Catalyst -
to the Integrated Economic
Development Scheme. Briefs on the preparation of fresh cassava prior to the
production of chips and pellets are
reported here. Operating conditions to producing
cassava ships on a small-scale basis are posted here.
The following
link dealt with Investment
briefs to producing cassava floor with small-scale industrial units. Each
unit can create 60 jobs or 60,000 jobs if 1,000 units are installed. That is a
lot for rural areas in a developing country.
Starting from Issue
60, four deliveries (A - Introduction
B- Market
C - Plantation's
creation and D - Medium-scale
industrial production unit) deal with the production of a granulated cassava
flour that is a popular food in Africa: GARI
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C - POSSIBILITY TO PRODUCE 20 MILLION METRIC TONS OF FINE GARI FLOUR FOR BAKERY
As per information and data provided in
Issue 61, there is the possibility to establish in Africa 8,000 operations
to producing coarse gari flour and creating around 1,096,000 industrial jobs
in rural areas. The market value being around US$ 3.8 billion.
In addition,
coarse gari flour could be ground to fine flour of gari (granulation: 150
micron) that could be used as partial substitute to wheat flour in bakery. Here
one is talking about a market of minimum 20 million metric tons of fine gari flour
to cater for bakery business all over Africa - A market value of US$ 8 billion.
A consulting firm in Cameroon: Agro-pme
dedicated a lot of research works on the substitution of flours originating
from maize, sorghum and roots and tubers for bakery products. 40% inclusion of
fine gari flour in replacement of wheat flour in bakery products. Ing. Ren� Taga,
wrote an interesting article about the subject that is available
here (in French).
To summarize, the development of an industry based
on tubers and roots is one of the surest way to establish an economic catalyst
to boost the economy of any African country. Targeting 10% of potential market
(fresh cassava, Gari and fine Gari flour) would assure a revenue in the range
of US$ 800 million to US$ 1.5 billion.
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