The west African country, a leading cotton producer, is moving into processing finished goods, seen as a route to prosperity
, she struggled to find work and was unemployed for two years. Then, she saw an advert on TV. Textile factories were being built in a new industrial zone, 28 miles from Cotonou, the city where Akouewanou, 24, lived with her parents, and they needed workers.
“Benin is an agricultural centre, a country that produces a lot of agricultural commodities – cotton, shea, cashews, soya, pineapple. But most of these crops used to be sold raw without any transformation,” says Letondji Beheton, managing director of the Glo-Djigbé industrial zone , which houses the textile factories. “In 2016 the new president wanted to [transform the Benin economy]. Instead of selling commodities raw, we will process them in Benin.
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