(Business in Cameroon) - Ouassa Babouté, village in the Nkoteng Arrondissement in the Central region of Cameroon, will be the location of the very first agro-industrial technopole in the country, revealed the Minister of Industry, Ernest Gbwaboubou, specifying that the government is working on this project with the support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).

This project, we learned, is a practical application of the Industrialisation Master Plan (PDI), recently approved by the Cameroonian government. A plan which mainly rests upon the development of the agro-industrial, energy and digital sectors.

At the agribusiness level, Minister Gbwaboubou explains, the government will put the priority on “developing agro-industrial technopoles”, to boost the local production and turn Cameroon into a breadbasket for the 10 CEEAC countries and 150 million Nigerian citizens, a country with which Cameroon shares a 1,500-km long border.

BRM