- (Business in Cameroon) - Cocoa farmers in the South West Region have been drilled on better production techniques, notably fair-trade certification. A two-day workshop that ended in Kumba recently took stock of the problems that have plagued the sector for decades as well as sought ways of surmounting the challenges.

The workshop at the Vianello Hotel in Kumba was prepared by the Organization for Gender, Civic Engagement and Youth Development (OGCEYOD) and sponsored by the British High Commission to Cameroon.

It emerged from the workshop that production-inhibiting factors like ageing plantations, ageing farmers, rural exodus, inadequate materials, increasing incidences of pests and diseases, fluctuating prices, lack of adequate information on quality, ineffective use of pesticides and fertilizers and worse still, lack of veritable motivation, have held down progress of the sector.

All agreed that sustainability in the cocoa sector can only be attained if all the stakeholders adhere to modern and innovative techniques of production, processing and marketing of cocoa.

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