(Business in Cameroon) - Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP), a Cameroonian subsidiary of French-based Compagnie Fruitière de Marseille, projects 170,000 tonnes of bananas in 2015. The company’s production is up by over 13,000 tonnes compared to 2014’s 157,000 tonnes.

The banana market leader in Cameroon, accounting for more than half of the nation’s total production, PHP exports its bananas primarily to the European Union, but also to African countries such as Morocco, Chad and Nigeria.

In addition to the 3,000 hectares that it already farms in the Moungo department in the Coastal region, PHP is currently expanding with the creation of a banana plantation covering a surface area of 800 hectares in the locality Dehane in South, Cameroon.