(Business in Cameroon) - After a 2013/2014 season that doubled coffee production, Cameroon aims to produce 40 000 tonnes by the end of the new season which officially opened on February 5, 2015 in Bafoussam in the country’s west region.

According to official figures, the country rose from 17,000 tonnes produced in 2012/2013 to 32,800 tonnes in 2013/2014. It now hopes to achieve its goal to produce 160,000 tonnes of coffee in 2020.

According to the leadership, producers should receive better prices during this season’s harvest due to the current global 4% deficit relative to demand, which caused prices to rice. Looking at this situation, Trade Minister, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, finds that, “it may not be a highway, but a path is opening-up to Cameroonian producers.”