Agnéby-Tiassa Region

The Agnéby-Tiassa Region is located in the south of Côte d'Ivoire and is subdivided into four (04) Departments: Agboville (Capital), Tiassalé, Taabo, and Sikensi. It covers an area of 9,080 km², which is 2.82% of the national area.

• The population of the region is as follows:

Source: INS, RGPH 2021

• Agboville, the capital of the region, is a Local Economic Connector (a small town that is at an embryonic stage of urbanization facilitating internal economies of scale, such as hosting a large company that processes local agricultural products) with an agricultural focus where the coffee-cocoa duo predominates. It is also a production area for sweet bananas (Study on the Competitive Economic Pole Development Program - PEC, 2018). It is crossed by the railway (Abidjan-Niger) and the northern highway for more than one hundred (100) kilometers;
• One (01) industrial zone exists with an industrial land reserve of 179 ha, including 45 ha in Agboville and 134 ha in Azaguié (MCIPPME, 2022);
• Mobile network coverage (ARTCI, July 2023): 97.34% of localities and 99.41% of the population are covered.

Health: The health infrastructure in the region includes most of the technical platforms.

Source: MSHPCMU, 2022

The key sectors of activity include agriculture and agro-industry, animal resources, wood industry, and tourism.

• Agriculture

Source: MEMINADERPV, 2023

Animal Resources:

Source: MIRAH, estimate 2022

• Agro-industry: Production and packaging of sweet bananas in Tiassalé, processing of palm oil in Sikensi, purchase and packaging of latex in Sikensi and Agboville, oil mill in Gbalékro in Agboville, frozen pineapple and passion fruit juice in Pacobo (Department of Taabo);
• Wood sector: six (06) wood processing units in Tiassalé and Agboville;
• Tourism: the archaeological park of the mysterious rocks of Ahouanou (Department of Tiassalé), the hippo ponds of Bandama and N’zi, the village of Bodo known as the "museum village" with crafts, folklore, painting, and sculpture, the confluence of Bandama-N’zi with its spectacular anastomoses over several dozen kilometers, the mysterious rocks of the Sikensi Department.

As part of the implementation of the National Development Plan (PND) 2021-2025, the Agnéby-Tiassa Region is included in the area covered by the Agro-pole of the food basin and agro-industrial zone near Abidjan (Agro-pole 5).

Investment opportunities exist in the following sectors:

• Agriculture: Investments in agricultural development such as lowlands, development of food crop sectors (Rice, Vegetables, Cassava), cash crop sectors (Rubber, Palm, Cocoa), and animal and fishery sectors (Fishing, Poultry).
• Agro-industry: processing of agricultural raw materials;
• Mining: manganese (Aboudé in the Oress-Krobou Sub-Prefecture) and gold (Taabo and Tiassalé);
• Tourism: ecotourism through the rehabilitation and maintenance of parks and reserves.

Some priority projects and actions have been identified for the benefit of the Agnéby-Tiassa Region. These include: