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Côte d’Ivoire: Gninlnagnon Koné dreams of supplanting the leading players in food supplements in Côte d’Ivoire with his Chérubins baby formula

Even as a child, Gninlnagnon Koné , a young man from Katiola in north central Côte d’Ivoire, liked to follow his parents, who grew tubers and maize, to their farm.

Today, an engineer in agricultural business management, he says, “When I became an engineer, I realised that our agricultural producers still face the same difficulties with processing their products. People work hard but ultimately their products are undervalued and sell poorly. It made me want to change things. I decided to process these products to create added value and give farmers the chance to live a better life from the fruits of their labour,” he explains.  

He too tried hard to set up an agricultural business without success. That is, until he encountered the Enable Youth Côte d’Ivoire project. 

“My sole idea in coming to the Higher School of Agronomy (ESA) in Yamoussoukro, the country’s political capital, was to get access to tools that would enable me to become a real agricultural entrepreneur as I’ve always dreamed,” he says, standing in front of a machine that roasts tiger nuts and maize. 

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