Bringing Instant Noodles to Africa Could Boost U.S. Farm Exports
FAS is working with several groups to bring fortified instant noodles to Africa.
Compiled by staff
Published: Sep 10, 2010
While instant noodles have been around since about 1958, many areas of the world have not had that much exposure to this food. USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service along with several farm groups and international aid groups is working on a project to bring instant noodles to Africa to promote U.S. farm products and fight hunger in the world.
With the help of those groups Imperial Foods is building an instant noodle factory in Cameroon in Africa that will not only help boost the health of many Africans and the wealth of the local community. The factory will turn out nutritionally fortified noodles designed for both the general population but also specially made formulations for those with HIV and young mothers.
Amadou Danpoulo Baba, the CEO of Imperial Foods, says the factory will bring 1000 new jobs to Cameroon, but will also mean a bigger market for several U.S. farm products.
"We will be using U.S. wheat flour, U.S. soy flour, and certainly some U.S dehydrated potato in the formulation as well," Baba said. "So we will be using a lot of U.S. farm products."
Baba says that in 10 years time the first production line will use 100,000 tons of U.S. wheat flour, 10,000 tons of soy flour, and about 5,000 tons of dehydrated potato flour. The factory is expected to begin operation next year.
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