02/03/2011 to 12: 12 By Labey Antoine and Jean-Michel Meyer
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the Senegalese Sugar Company. ©
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African countries today may become unprofitable, the next few years, exporters. This is a consequence of Soaring prices: investment flows and plantations are spreading.
In 2030, global demand for sugar is expected to have increased by 50% compared to today, 90 million additional tonnes, according to the trader Czarnikow. Main reason: the rising consumption in emerging and developing countries. In fact, for several months now, tensions are visible on the course: the sugar has reached $ 845 a tonne in early February, its highest level since 1987, the beginning of its listing in London. As a result, many investments flowing into Africa to bridge the gap domestic markets but also to develop export. National Leaders
In Mali, the draft also Markala sugar, funded by the African Development Bank (ADB) amounting to 65 million euros (190 000 t of sugar and 15 million liters of ethanol), two large units of culture and processing of sugar cane are underway in the region of Segou: Sukala, with the support of China, and Sosumar with South Africa's Illovo, Africa's leading sector.
In total, these two complexes mobilize 35 000 ha of land irrigated from the river Niger and can produce up to 250,000 tonnes of sugar per year, while the current deficit of Mali is only 115 000 t. Illovo, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods British conglomerate, does not account elsewhere on Mali to develop its market presence worldwide, with an expected increase in exports from Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia.
in Senegal River Valley and its ability to attract the irrigation of sugar cane planters. The monopoly of the Senegalese Sugar Company (CSS) of "king sugar", the French Jean-Claude Mimran, is being challenged by the arrival of a major competitor, the Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote, the richest entrepreneur in Africa. Again, this is not simply to satisfy the domestic market but also to seize the opportunities offered by rising global demand. While the annual deficit of Senegal sugar is around 60 000 t, Aliko Dangote has produced over 100,000 tons per year from 40 000 ha he obtained the Senegalese government. In Algeria also
Even Algeria, which does not yet beet or cane sugar - On the contrary, the country ranks among the top ten importers of sugar in the world - interested in the global market. In a country known to have multiplied since 2009, barriers to entry for foreign investors, the French sugar group joined Cristal Union, after eighteen months of negotiation with his counterpart in private Algerian La Belle, an actor of the 'present in food production and trading of pasta, semolina, coffee ...
late January, the two partners have formalized their agreement to build a sugar cane Ouled Moussa, in the region Boumerdes, 50 km east of Algiers, which will employ 250 people and produce 350,000 tons of sugar per year. An investment of 70 million euros. Cristal Union holds 35% stake in the refinery, against 65% for the group LaBelle. Nevertheless: the French group who will drive and manage the investment.
On site, civil works are almost completed. The start of the activity is expected in early 2012, but the project has already a second phase, which plans to increase annual production to 700,000 tonnes of sugar by four years. The association Cristal Union-La Belle will then join the big league's first private Algerian group, Cevital, which has already announced it will increase the production capacity of its sugar refinery in Bejaia of 1.8 to 2 million tonnes in 2011.
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