SNV provides Konye cocoa growers with processing plant

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SNV provides Konye cocoa growers with processing plant

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- Sunday, 19 April 2015 18:41

(Business in Cameroon) - The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) has just provided the 700 members of the farmers’ cooperative in Konyé, located in Cameroon’s South-West region with a plant for transforming cocoa beans into cocoa paste, cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

According to SNV, which trained the cooperative’s members to use the new machinery, the processing plant will allow them to gain more value from the 600 tonnes of cocoa product per annum in Konyé.

The Inter-professional Cocoa and Coffee Board (CICC in French) has indicated that a kilo of raw cocoa beans is sold for 1500 FCfa while two kilogrammes of cocoa butter generate 10,000 FCFA in revenue on the local market.

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