SODECO, a new autonomous company open to private investors would take over the two hulling factoris from OCIBU.

[4] As of 2010 SODECO had two curing factories, Songa in Gitega and Buterere in Bujumbura, with combined capacity of 60,000 tons per year.

[4] In June 2009 the state issued a call for tenders, and in 2012 the SODECO plant in Gitega was sold to the Ugandan company KYOOGA–COPRODIV for US$2.8 million.

Déo Guide Rurema, Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock, attributed the drop to climate change.

[1] Companies wholly or partially owned by the state that were reporting negative results in 2021 included Hôtel Source du Nil, Onatel, Cogerco, Tanganyika Mining Burundi, Regideso, Socabu and SODECO.