Market update: Good business prospects for the agrofood, plastics and packaging industries in Côte d'Ivoire and West AfricaAccording to GTAI Germany Trade & Invest of 16 May 2018, Côte d'Ivoire is becoming the bread basket of West Africa (https://goo.gl/kJPmWm). Since 2013, the German trade show specialists fairtrade Messe organize agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa in Accra, Ghana. “agrofood West Africa covers the entire value chain – from field to fork with the three dedicated events agro & AgroTech West Africa, food + bev tec West Africa and food + hospitality West Africa. agro & AgroTech West Africa 2018: New strategic partnership between fairtrade and DLGDLG German Agricultural Society enters into strategic partnership with fairtrade (https://goo.gl/FPKzzU) and brings in its agro and trade fair expertise by introducing its AgroTech brand to agro West Africa 2018 and onwards. According to VDMA, the German Engineering Federation, West Africa imported 187.2 million euros of agricultural equipment (https://goo.gl/t4JR39).The main markets in West Africa, apart from Nigeria, are Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Benin, by order of importance.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 23, 2018 15:11 UTC