In Nkouo, in the Ignié district, Pool department, SEDIMA Congo, a subsidiary of the Senegalese group SEDIMA, plans to develop an integrated poultry value chain, ranging from the production of crops for animal feed to the marketing of chickens and eggs. According to the report from the Development Bank of Central African States (BDEAC), the project's financial structuring is currently mobilizing nearly 20,3 billion FCFA.
This financing is based in particular on an envelope of 5 billion FCFA that the BDEAC has committed to mobilizing. It will be supplemented by 5 billion FCFA from BSCA Bank, 4 billion FCFA from BGFIBank and 1 billion FCFA from LCB Bank.
SEDIMA Congo, for its part, must provide 5,2 billion FCFA in equity. To support this development, the project now has a significant land holding.
The Congolese Council of Ministers examined, on 8 November 2024, the request from SEDIMA Congo concerning a dependency of the public domain of 6 000 hectares. The decree adopted at the end of the year 2024 made it possible to declassify this plot from the public domain and incorporate it into the private domain of the State, with a view to concluding an emphyteutic lease with SEDIMA Congo.
An order issued on 30 December 2024 subsequently approved this lease, covering an area of 6 000 hectares, 2 ares, and 28 centiares. On this surface area, SEDIMA plans to produce 10 800 tons of corn and 6 600 tons of soybeans each year.
These agricultural products are intended to supply a unit designed to manufacture 25 382 tons of poultry feed. The complex is also expected to produce 5,3 million hatching eggs, 3,3 million day-old chicks, 80 000 ready-to-lay pullets, and 2 200 tons of broiler chickens per year.
The financing operation currently being examined by the banks does not, however, constitute the starting point for this initiative. The Senegalese group has been working on an establishment in the Congo since 2014.
At the time, SEDIMA announced its intention to invest in the Congolese poultry sector in order to contribute to the supply of the local market in chickens and eggs, while developing the production of inputs intended for breeders. The Nkouo project is thus part of the integrated model developed by SEDIMA in Senegal since the creation of the group in 1976.
The company has gradually developed around poultry farming before extending its activities to several links in the agro-industrial chain. In the Congo, it intends to reproduce this logic by integrating the production of agricultural raw materials, the manufacture of poultry feed, livestock farming, and the production of chicks, eggs, and broiler chickens within the same mechanism.
Claude Paul Tjeg. Published on 30/09/26 12:41.
The Editorial Staff.