WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/CFMC/W/15 
18 April 2008 
 
 (08-1826) 
 Original:   French 
 
 
DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S CONSULTATIVE FRAMEWORK 
MECHANISM ON COTTON 
 
Cotton Projects1 
 
Communication from Côte d'Ivoire 
 
 
 The following communication, dated 22 February 2006, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of Côte d'Ivoire.  
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PROJECT TITLE:  DIRT ROADS FOR COTTON 
 
 
A. C
ONTEXT AND JUSTIFICATION  
1. Since the liberalization and privatization of th e cotton industry, the State has been solely 
responsible for the maintenance of di rt roads for the cotton sector.  Thus, it is the State's role to ensure 
every year that the roads are gr aded and the structures repaired. 
2. Following the armed conflict in Côte d'Ivoire, th is task was completely neglected, making it 
difficult to transport seed cotton to the different factories.   
3. Faced with these difficulties, operators in th e cotton sector, particularly the producers and 
cotton companies, agreed that the burden would have to be borne by the industry.  Thus, the cotton companies ensure that the work is done, and charge  it to the sector as a whole.  In practice, the 
producers having accepted this burden, the cotton comp anies are asked to transmit the paid bills to 
INTERCOTON for settlement.  Ho wever, enormous problems have been encountered in 
implementing this procedure. 
4. Indeed, the cotton companies, faced with consider able cash shortages find that they are unable 
either to grade the roads or to re pair the associated structures.  Hen ce the need for external funding to 
cover these activities for an emergency period of approximately three years following the crisis. 
B. 
COMPONENTS OF THE PROJECT  
5. Within the framework of this programme, the project will involve two main activities: 
(a) Grading of the dirt roads; 
(b) repair and/or construction of associated structures. 
                                                      
1 This project was distributed to the Development Community by e-mail on 16 March 2006 and 
circulated at the 7th Round of the DGCFMC. WT/CFMC/W/15 
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  C. 
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES  
(i) Grading 
6. All of the dirt roads that have been abandone d and allowed to degene rate, thereby rendering 
the transport of seed cotton from the production areas to the factories very difficult, need to be opened 
up, widened and maintained. 
(ii) Structures 
7. All of the structures that have been damaged si nce the armed conflict need to be repaired.  
Once this has been done, new structures will need to be  built in order to facilitate the transport of seed 
cotton to the factories. 
D. IMPLEMENTATION  
8. The project could be entrusted to local en terprises under the supervision of the cotton 
companies and with the support of the umbrella organizations. 
E. IMPLEMENTATION TIMETABLE  
9. The work is to be completed during the 2005- 2006 season.  Current maintenance should be 
repeated in 2006-2007: 
(a) Grading and re-metalling:  mid September; 
(b) Repair of structures:  beginning of October; 
(c) Building of structures:  beginning of November. 
F. COSTS  
10. The estimated cost of the project in year one is: 
• CIDT: CFAF  1,498,730,000  
 
• LCCI: CFAF     520,000,000  
 
• IVOIRE COTON: CFAF  1,283,430,000  
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 TOTAL  CFAF  3,302,160,000   
  
   WT/CFMC/W/15
 Page 3CIDT 
DIRT  ROADS  FOR  COTTON  
 
WORK TO BE DONE  UNIT  
KM QUANTITY  UNIT PRICE  COST OF WORK TO BE DONE  
(CFAF ) 
1 – DIRT ROADS  
Grading of the main roads  
 
DR MANKONO :  1464 
DR SEGUELA :    1926  
DR BOUAFLE :    1379  
 
2 – STRUCTURES  
Building of  structures involving piping 
 
Number of pipes  : 159 
DR MANKONO :    68 
DR SEGUELA :      37 
DR BOUAFLE :      54 
 
3 – WORKS TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THE FRAMEWORK 
OF THE AFD  PROJECT  
Works  to be completed 
Dawara – Tondolo road 
Samakoro – Paniko road Farakoro – Dikodougou road 
 
Works  to be constructed 
Brozomba – Bobosso – Tiémegboué road 
  
  
Km 
 
 
     
Km 
 
  
  
4769 
 
 
     
159  
  
120,000 
 
 
     
4,550,000  
  
572,280,000 
 
 
     
723,450,000 
    
 
 
44,000,000 32,000,000 42,000,000 
 
 
85,000,000 
 
OVERALL TOTAL CIDT     1,498,730,000  
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LCCI 
DIRT  ROADS  FOR  COTTON  
 
 
 
WORK TO BE DONE   
UNIT  
KM  
QUANTITY   
UNIT PRICE   
COST OF WORK TO BE DONE  
(CFAC ) 
 1
 – DIRT ROADS  
 
- Grading of main roads 
- Re-metalling of roads  
 
2 – STRUCTURES  
 
Repair:  
Building of a structure: 30 Ø   100 for 10 ml
 
  
  
 
 
Km Km 
 
 
ml ml 
  
 
 
2400   480 
 
 
100 300 
  
 
  
 
 
137,000 
   2,500 
 
 
400,000 500,000 
 
  
 
 
328,800,000  
     1,200,000 
 
 
40,000,000 
150,000,000 
 OVERALL TOTAL LCCI SA 
  
-  
-  
-  
520,000,000 
 
  
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 Page 5IVOIRE  COTON 
DIRT  ROADS  FOR  COTTON  
 
WORK TO BE DONE  UNIT  
KM QUANTITY UNIT PRICE  COST OF WORK TO 
BE DONE (CFAF ) 
1 – HEAVY GRADING OF MAIN ROADS  
Boundiali – Odiénné:                             135 
Boundiali – Tengrela:                            115 
Bli – Sélého (Séguélé road)                     56 
  
 
Km 
 
  
 
306 
 
  
 
185,000 
 
  
 
56,610,000 
 
 
2 – HEAVY GRADING OF TRUNK ROADS  
Boundiali - Dianra:                                   85 
Dianra – Bouandougou:                          123 
Séguétiélé – Dianra:                                 82 
  
 
Km 
 
  
 
290 
   
 
165,000 
 
  
 
47,850,000 
3 – Light grading and work on critical points of dirt roads for cotton 4 to 8 metres wide Km 4,135 
 125,000 516,875,000 
4 – Opening up of roads for new settlements created. 
Embankment work and heavy grading with coarse sand Km 55 649,000 35,695,000 
TOTAL GRADING - - - 657,030,000 
Building of structures with reinforced co ncrete culverts including the transport, 
installation and construction of culvert he ads (upstream and downstream) over a length 
of nine metres per culvert row. 
36 culvert segments  Ø 2000 
78 culvert segments  Ø 1000  
  
ml 
ml  
  
324 
702  
  
850,000 
500,000  
  
275,400,000 
351,000,000 
Total building of structures    626,400,000 
OVERALL TOTAL IVOIRE COTON    1,283,430,000 
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