T he Cotton Development Corporation known by its French acronym as SODECOTON, wants to acquire a new milling factory with a production capacity of 300 tons per day. The company headed by Mohamadou Bayero has just launched an international call for tenders for this purpose. The new factory, which should cost FCFA 5 billion, will focus on the extraction of cotton and soybean oil and will help boost its production. The company located in Garoua in Northern Cameroon, has just launched an international call for tenders for the supply of a complete solvent extraction unit of 300 tons/day with a complete miscellany phase neutralization line of 100 tons of neutral oil/day at the oil mill in Garoua. The supply of the new production unit will be catered by the budget for the 2023 financial year of BADEA (Arab Bank for Development in Africa). The said factory will have the specificity of processing cotton and soybean seeds for the production of cottonseed oil (Diamaor) and soybean oil (Soyor) of this structure. Produced since 1957, Diamaor oil production is estimated at 1.2 million litres of oil. According to the 2021 CTR report, the latter would have experienced an increase the crushing of said seeds resulting in an increase in the production of refined oil of 7 per cent, and of cakes and all products combined by 37 per cent, Cameroon Business Today learnt. . It is worth indicating that the desire for ...
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