emphyteotic leases as land is the exclusive property of the state in Gabon, ownership of the land cannot be private. Not only did Siat receive the land use right over the area under production but also on the area where Hévégab planned to plant but never achieved to expand its activity.

When Hévégab was sold to Siat in 2004, the agreement between the Belgium group and the Gabonese authorities specified that all the outgrowers part of the VP would continue their activities. Siat committed not only to purchase all the production of the existing outgrowers but also to expand the production trough village plantation. SIAT no longer provided loans to the outgrowers.

In 2013, SIAT employed 300 workers at the factory (there is only one production unit) and 375 tappers working in the fields collecting latex. In 2020 the Nyanga Ranch employed 15 full-time staff.

The large majority of the workers at SIAT are young males unmarried and without children and are migrants coming from Cameroon or Equatorial Guinea

Belgian company SIAT received a €10 million loan from the African Development Bank in 2007 to improve and expand its oil palm & rubber developments in Gabon

Belgian company SIAT received a €10 million loan from the African Development Bank in 2007 to improve and expand its oil palm & rubber developments in Gabon. In 2004, Hévégab was finally sold to the Belgian group Siat, after four years of non-activity

In prevision of its extensions, Siat started early 2013 a consultation of the villages around the new concessions in Kango with the aim of achieving the signature of a Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) by the end of 2013.

Plans to convert part of ranch into eco-tourism facility.

Plans to convert part of ranch into eco-tourism facility. In 2017 the ranch was close to bankruptcy. By 2020 the company had 6,230 animals.