(Business in Cameroon) - The cocoa and coffee trade association revealed in its report on the year 2017 that during the 2016-2017 cocoa season, 22,400 tons of Grade 1 cocoa were bought but none was successfully exported.
" This means that roughly 22,400 tons of cocoa was produced and bought as G1 in farms but, they could not be exported", the trade association wrote. It also added that “this situation is worrying all of the actors of the sector in times when cocoa quality is presented as the antidote against the fall in prices and is the main challenge to face during the future cocoa campaigns".
Cameroon sold 231,642 tons of cocoa during the 2016-2017campaign; this is 37,852 tons less than the quantity sold during the previous campaign or, 14% decrease. At the same time, the stock at the end of the 2016-2017 campaign is 9,249 tons which represent an increase by 1,255 tons compared to the stock at the end of campaign 2015-2016 which was 7,994 tons. Also, during the campaign 2016-2017, 3,400 tons of cocoa “Good fermented” were exported.
Sylvain Andzongo