Burkina Faso creates SOVIB to produce wine locally

Planned in Bobo-Dioulasso, the industrial plant represents an estimated investment of nearly 10 billion CFA francs, separate from the company's initial capital of one billion.

By Chantal Hounkpatin · 25 October 2026 · 1 min read

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Bunches of grapes photographed on 3 September 2017. Illustrative image, not linked to any SOVIB operation or facility in Burkina Faso. Couleur / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.

Burkina Faso has created the Société viticole du Burkina (SOVIB) to turn local production into wine. Adopted on 22 October by the Council of Ministers, the decision provides for a mixed-economy company with a public majority, according to the Government Information Service.

To develop this activity, SOVIB must build an industrial plant in Bobo-Dioulasso, at an estimated cost of 9.887 billion CFA francs. The government also expects the project to create hundreds of jobs.

Separate from this industrial investment, the company's starting capital is set at one billion CFA francs. It is to be divided between the State, with 45%, BRAFASO, with 10%, and the Burkinabè private sector, which will hold 45%.

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