(Business in Cameroon) - Devote all necessary means to revive the milk production in Cameroon and thus reduce the current production deficit, then catalyse the reduction in imports of this product which cost several billion of francs Cfa per year to the country. This is the main ambition that the Cameroonian Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (Minepia) has set for 2016, Minister Taïga announced on 22 January 2016 in Yaoundé.

Indeed, according to previous statistics, Cameroon has a production deficit of over 170,000 tons per year, since the national production peaks at approximately 125,000 tons only, for a demand estimated at 297,000 tons. And the reason for this, the sector’s experts explain, is the low yield of the cow species used in the main production areas.

Even though Minister Taïga did not elaborate on the vision of the development plan for the national milk production in 2016, one can assume that one part of this ambition will be to bring into the production areas better performing cow species.

This could also be about working on the revival of a milk project in Ngaoundéré, located in the north which is the main production area in the country. This project was supposed to have been established in the 90’s with the support of the Canadian Cooperation, but had to close down in the early 2000’s, due to management negligence.

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