(Business in Cameroon) - 36 groups of coffee producers in the department of Moungo, the largest production area in the Cameroon’s coastal region received 150 tons of fertilizers in the framework of a project that promotes the use of fertilizers in the cocoa and coffee sector (Pauef2c).

The project which is steered by the ministry of agriculture and rural development (Minader), aims to boost Cameroon’s cocoa and coffee production by improving farmers’ access to fertilizers as most of them lack the means to purchase the product.

However, looking closer, this project so far had no noticeable effect on the country’s coffee production which has even considerably declined over the past ten years.

According to actors of the coffee sector, the gradual decline is due to farmers disinterest in the crop, as it is less profitable than cocoa.

BRM