Benin/Agricultural produce development: Inauguration of a mango processing complex in Péporiyakou

On Wednesday August 13, 2025, the Programme d'Appui au Secteur du Développement Durable - phase 3 (PAsDER 3), with financial support from Swiss Cooperation, inaugurated a modern complex at Péporiyakou, in the commune of Natitingou, dedicated to processing mangoes into high value-added products.

Located on a one-hectare site on the northern slopes of Natitingou, the facility is designed to accommodate the majority of mangoes produced in the communes of Toucountouna, Boukoumbé, Tanguiéta and Copargo. The plant will produce dried mangoes for local and international markets, juices and other derivatives for local consumption, as well as fresh mangoes for the Beninese market. Watermelon juice will also be part of the processed products.

The complex comprises several blocks:

- Mango drying block: Washing room with washing tubs, enclosing and pre-treatment room, drying room equipped with 4 ATTESTA dryers, unclaying room, packaging room.senclaying room, packaging room, finished product storage room, manager's office, meeting room, changing rooms and sanitary facilities complying with hygiene standards (forward motion).

- Juice production block: equipped production hall, hall with cold room not yet fitted out for processing and packaging fresh mangoes.

- Teaching and administrative block: training room for 25 learners, two offices and a store.

- Miscellaneous facilities: Two terraces, patios and corridors for ventilation, two technical cabins, gatehouse with integrated toilets, autonomous drinking water point and complete fencing of the site.

The total cost of the project amounts to 316 million FCFA, including 276 million financed by PAsDER, one hectare of land donated by the Natitingou town council (estimated at20 million) and a contribution from the Fédération Nationale des Producteurs de Mangues (FENAPROM) estimated at 20 million.

The complex will directly benefit 896 mango-producing family farms (20% of which are run by women) in the five communes concerned, and indirectly another 1,070 producers who are members of FENAPROM. The project is also expected to create 350 direct and indirect jobs.

The reception ceremony took place in the presence of the Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Ms. Émilie Béziers.Industrie et du Commerce, Madame Émilie TIBOUTE SAMA, the representative of the Swiss Cooperation, Mr. Alex SALIHOU ALIDOU, the Mayor and the Executive Secretary of Natiting.taire Exécutive de Natitingou, the Chef d'arrondissement de Péporiyakou, beneficiary producers, representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, and the Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA).

Source: www.gouv.bj/