The performance marks a break with the 2024/2025 fiscal year, during which the operator had suffered a 53% drop in its volumes to 31,029 tons (16.18% of the market) following the end of the commercial partnership concluded with the American giant Cargill in January 2025. The buyer's recovery is based on a gross collection of 50,210 tons from farmers, absorbing 20% of the national harvest fixed at 247,914 tons (-20%). The trading podium now places OFI CAM in second place with 24,394 tons (19.44%), followed by the SBET structure, which has been downgraded to third place with 23,223 tons (18.51%), the trio concentrating 70.32% of the market.

The decline in the national harvest from 309,518 tons to 247,914 tons has caused a 35% collapse in volumes sold abroad and a 58.8% drop in international revenue, which has fallen to 580.43 billion FCFA, compared to 1,410.85 billion FCFA a year earlier. The combined decline in global prices and tonnages has heavily impacted the profitability of commercial sector players.

The reorganization of direct supply networks at the level of cooperatives has consolidated the grip of local buyers. Financial autonomy in the face of global trading multinationals guarantees the capacity for intervention of private structures in periods of volume contraction. The concentration of trade among the top three players has secured the management of flows to the ports of embarkation.


Bernardo

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