Gabon has signed investment agreements worth more than 775 billion CFA francs ($1.38 billion) with five private partners to strengthen its poultry sector and reduce reliance on imported chicken. The deals, concluded on May 4 under the Emergency Operational Plan for the Poultry Sector (POUFA), aim to build an integrated poultry value chain covering feed production, farming, and processing infrastructure.
Among the projects, Turkish conglomerate Hakan Kiran Holding will construct an integrated farm in Ntoum with a capacity of 60,000 metric tons annually, while NJS/Avi Gabon will invest in Woleu-Ntem province with a farm and feed mill producing 24,000 metric tons of feed each year. The Chinese Association of Agricultural International Exchange and Hong Kong Grove Metal Limited will jointly develop agro-industrial facilities and an agricultural park worth nearly 435 billion CFA francs. Qingdao Intelligent Poultry Investment Development Co. Ltd has also pledged to build a farm with 45,000 metric tons annual capacity.
These new agreements build on earlier measures to boost domestic poultry production. In March, Gabon’s BCEG launched a reduced-rate agricultural credit fund of 6.8 billion CFA francs to support agribusiness projects. In November 2025, the government initiated training for 40,000 workers across the poultry value chain, and in October 2025 signed a deal with Algeria’s Graine International to build farms, a hatchery, and a slaughterhouse targeting 72,000 metric tons of chicken meat annually by 2027.
The government has set a goal to ban broiler chicken imports starting January 1, 2027, making rapid expansion of domestic production essential. These investments and initiatives represent a major step toward food self-sufficiency and the creation of a sustainable poultry industry in Gabon.
