by
Kassem Nameh, Manager, Satake West Africa
Officially opened in April 2016, Satake West Africa, located in the strategically important city of Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, is Satake’s regional base from which it markets its cutting-edge technology for the rapidly developing region.
The West African agricultural and processing sectors are constantly growing, particularly the rice, coffee and cashew industries. As the demand for new technology, greater efficiency and higher throughputs for grain processing and associated industries continuously increases, Satake West Africa is poised to respond to the growing needs of customers in the region.
In West Africa, rice consumption is especially high and accounts for a high
proportion of the overall food consumption. This region depends on
international imports for 40 percent of its rice supply. Thailand, and
increasingly, Vietnam, are the region’s main rice suppliers, the main importing
countries being Benin, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire.
In March 2020, according to CommodAfrica, it is estimated that West Africa imports around 14,155 million tonnes (mt) of rice against a worldwide trade of 41,688mt. West Africa imports around 30 percent of rice traded internationally. For instance, in Nigeria, the local rice consumption per capita of 32kg has increased 4.7 percent in the past decade, almost four times the global consumption growth, and reached 6.4mt in 2017, accounting for 20 percent of Africa's consumption.
Read more HERE.
Officially opened in April 2016, Satake West Africa, located in the strategically important city of Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, is Satake’s regional base from which it markets its cutting-edge technology for the rapidly developing region.
The West African agricultural and processing sectors are constantly growing, particularly the rice, coffee and cashew industries. As the demand for new technology, greater efficiency and higher throughputs for grain processing and associated industries continuously increases, Satake West Africa is poised to respond to the growing needs of customers in the region.
In March 2020, according to CommodAfrica, it is estimated that West Africa imports around 14,155 million tonnes (mt) of rice against a worldwide trade of 41,688mt. West Africa imports around 30 percent of rice traded internationally. For instance, in Nigeria, the local rice consumption per capita of 32kg has increased 4.7 percent in the past decade, almost four times the global consumption growth, and reached 6.4mt in 2017, accounting for 20 percent of Africa's consumption.
Read more HERE.
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