However it buys most of its tomatoes from independent farmers farmers grow tomatoes in under contract with technical support from SOCAS. The company manufactures tomato paste. The company also exports fresh green beans, dried tomatoes and basil paste.
The company has an annual turnover of approximately 15 billion CFA. Concentrate production was 10 tons in The company focuses on: improving quality of fresh and concentrate tomatoes; modernize equipment; aggressive marketing campaign especially in Europe; developing new products to grow sales and revenue.
Following its independence in until the devaluation of the CFA franc in , the Government of Senegal had followed a policy of supporting the major export sub sectors, especially groundnuts, cotton, horticulture, cereals, sugar and tomato concentrate. However the tomato concentrate sub-sector has not yet been liberalised.
SOCAS is protected against competition from imports by the fact that its output is the only sold on the domestic market under a mandatory Senegalese standard. This has dealt a blow against domestic tomato producers in the Senegal River Valley.
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