Fertilizer Cocoa-Coffee Programme Draws Balance Sheet

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- Tuesday, 29 October 2013 16:46

(Business in Cameroon) - A balance sheet of the cocoa-coffee fertilizer support programme piloted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shows that in three years, some 1,400 tons of fertilizer were offered to farmers and some 8,000 farmers sensitized on its use.

According to the project’s coordinator, Bernard Awasume during the fourth steering committee meeting in Yaounde on October 29, 2013, seven regions have been touched by the programme. These include the Centre, South, East, West, North West, Littoral and the South West Regions.

He revealed that the programme seeks to boost cocoa production to 600,000 tons, Arabica coffee to 35,000 tons and Robusta coffee to 122,000 tons by 2020.

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