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:

 

ENTITY	POPULATION				HOUSEHOLDS
	MEN	WOMEN	TOTAL	SEX RATIO	NUMBER	AVERAGE SIZE
Agnéby-Tiassa Region	458,756	407,195	865,951	113	158,762	5.5
Agboville Department	200,049	184,291	384,340	109	70,131	5.5
Agboville (Capital)	69,015	66,067	135,082	104	27,333	4.9

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.

 

Health Infrastructure	Number
Primary Contact Health Establishments (ESPC)	100
General Hospitals	03
Confessional General Hospitals	01
Regional Hospital Centers	01
Private Profit-Making Health Establishments	13
Functional Operating Theaters	05
Functional Gynecological-Obstetric Operating Rooms	03
Functional Public Radiology Services	01
Functional Private Radiology Services	11
Dental Offices	02
Public Pharmacies	19
Private Pharmacies	22

Source: MSHPCMU, 2022

 

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

 

• Agriculture

Type of Crop	Crops	Production (in tons)
		2021	2022	2023
Cash Crops	Rubber	91,578	120,860	121,932
	Oil Palm	19,333	17,412	19,737
	Cocoa	82,020	93,499	84,428
	Coffee	1,155	1,199	1,137
Food Crops	Plantain Banana	293,223	304,587	39,003
	Yam	49,977	51,270	219,021
	Cassava	336,685	363,492	308,256
	Corn	10,573	11,127	16,281
	Rice	13,197	12,163	13,611
	Taro	3,866	3,981	ND
	Potato	1,087	1,118	ND
	Peanut	717	746	1,142
Vegetable Crops	Eggplant	9,160	9,378	1,219
	Okra	6,617	6,818	3,059
	Tomato	637	656	ND

Source: MEMINADERPV, 2023

 

Animal Resources:

Type of Livestock	Species	Livestock (in number of heads)
		2022
Poultry	Broilers	168,235
	Layers	383,101
	Traditional Chickens	77,421
Ruminants	Cattle	9,357
	Sheep	8,659
	Goats	3,040
Pigs	Traditional Pig	10,967
	Modern Pig

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:

NB	Project or Action Description	Planning Document	Estimated Cost (FCFA)	Observations
01	Construction of the Singrobo-Ahouaty hydroelectric power plant (2x22 MW)	PND 2021 -2025	Contract awarded	In progress: estimated completion rate of 50.42% (end of June 2022)
02	Duplication of the Abidjan Ouagadougou-Kaya railway	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize
03	Development of an Industrial Zone	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize
04	Electrification of remaining localities: 53 localities to be electrified in the Autonomous District of the Lagoons, which includes the Agnéby-Tiassa Region	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize
05	Construction and upgrading of roads: heavy reshaping (464 km), light reshaping (2,580 km), and structures (09)	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize
06	Construction of social and economic housing	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize
07	Land development program for the production of housing and serviced plots accessible to all	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize
08	Implementation of the Competitive Economic Pole (PEC) program in Agboville (Local Economic Connector).	PND 2021 -2025	Not specified	Business opportunity to seize