Cote d’Ivoire-Switzerland April 16, 2021 to 10:22 113 APA - Bonoua (Cote d’Ivoire) A Swiss tropical fruit processing and drying plant was launched Thursday in Asse (Bonoua), a town located 60 km south-east of Abidjan, at a whopping investment cost of 3.27 billion CFA francs. The Ivorian Minister of Investment and Private Sector Development, Emmanuel Essis Esmel, and the Swiss Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, Anne Lugin-Moulin attended the official opening of the factory. The food-processing unit, located at the heart of the Ivorian pineapple production, processes 7,700 tonnes of mangoes, pineapples, coconuts and bananas per year. It also processes 800 tonnes of premium quality dried fruit, 400 tonnes of which are organic.