00:01Two Ivarian brothers want to become giants in cocoa processing.
00:06Founders of the African cocoa company, Fuseni and Alasne, say they want to dominate the
00:11world with our way of doing things and our know-how.
00:14Ivory Coast is the world's leading cocoa producer but only processes about 40% locally while
00:20the rest is exported.
00:22Our goal is to become the giants of the transformation of cocoa, not only in C├┤te d'Ivoire but to dominate
00:29the world by our way of doing it, by our knowledge.
00:32We can't be the first world producer of cocoa, it's a strategic activity for the economy
00:40of our country.
00:41As a nation, we think that we have our place with the micro and macro-economic policy that
00:48the C├┤te d'Ivoire has put in place.
00:53The twins opened a factory in August in their hometown of Devo, which has a processing capacity
00:59of 36,000 tons annually with a target of 80,000 tons.
01:04The pair are also creating jobs and sharing their knowledge to help develop the industry
01:08in the ivory cost.
01:09While their cosmetic materials are exported, where there is demand and their chocolate
01:30for consumption, it's sold in Ivory Coast at competitive prices.
01:35Our different derivatives of cocoa are sold internationally, including the cocoa butter,
01:42the cocoa butter and the cocoa butter, because it's there that is demand.
01:47We would like it to be sold here.
01:48It's in this sense that we work.
01:49That's why I told you that we are doing the promotion of local consumption.
01:53Our own chocolate tablets are sold here.
01:56That's what I mean.
01:57We have our own chocolate brand which is sold locally, which is not sold outside.
02:02And we also have a part of the cacao butter that is sold here.
02:07Coca accounts for five million jobs in Ivory Coast or one-sixth of the population.
02:13The government said price of coca paid to growers is at a record level of 2800 CFA francs
02:20per kilo.
02:21A few kilometers from Devo, in a shaded plantation carpeted with cocoa tree leaves, Kanga Prudence
02:27was cutting yellow pots.
02:30The advantage for us is that this cacao can be transformed here, locally.
02:38When it's like that, everyone will benefit, especially our producers.
02:41Because we have our children who are in the city.
02:43We have our parents who are in the city.
02:45And when it's transformed locally, it's more advantageous.
02:48If we have our children who are open, we will be able to work for some children who are
02:55in the city.
02:56A 35-year-old chemist, Selimata, said she wants to help the youth here who don't have
03:03much knowledge about industrialization.
03:06African cocoa company cost nearly 50 million years of money.
03:07I've decided to work here at Cacao SA to really increase my competence and help the
03:13young people from here who don't have much knowledge about industrialization and transformation.
03:20In terms of the transformation, we can really raise the challenges in the region.
03:31African cocoa company cost nearly 50 million euros, the brothers noted, without specifying
03:38the source of the funds.
03:40The second obstacle has been the lake of qualified labor.
03:44The first obstacle to the transformation of the cacao, it's the financial problem.
03:49And after the financial problem, it's also the problem of the qualified labor.
03:55So the majority of young people, today, don't even know how to make the transformation
04:00of the cacao.
04:01They don't really have a goal dedicated to really learning.
04:04So we have to start to have a form, a form, a form of a form of a form of a form of
04:08a form of a form of a form of a form of a form of a form of a form of a form.
04:11So it's really a problem.
04:13Still, the brothers said their factory has created 1,000 direct and indirect jobs, primarily
04:20for locals.
04:22Technical jobs are held by young people trained in major cities.
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