(Business in Cameroon) - Managing Director of Yagoua Association for the Expansion and Modernisation of Rice Cultivation (Semry), Marc Samatana, has announced that the company will soon acquire two rice paddy manufacturing plants with a 10-tonne capacity per hour for each.

The Semry Managing Director explains that the acquisition will increase the agro-industrial plant’s processing capacities. The factory already produces between 70,000 and 80,000 which is 70%-80% of Cameroon’s total rice production.

Due to the lack of processing plants, almost 90% of Semry’s production is exported as rice paddies to neighbouring Nigeria which makes rice a scarce commodity in Cameroonian markets and supermarkets.