(Business in Cameroon) - On February 8, 2018, agents of the regional delegation of the ministry of commerce in the Far-North seized 32 tons of millet a truck was about to smuggle in Douala while the region is haunted by famine.
According to the regional tri-weekly L’œil du Sahel, all the load has been sold by the regional delegation at CFA18,000 per bag of 100 kg, while the actual market value is CFA25,000. This was a real opportunity for the population which is now unable to buy cereals because their staple foods production has been decreasing for at least two years now.
Officially, the decrease is due to the unfavorable climatic conditions and Boko Haram whose exactions forced many people to flee their villages and abandon the millet, corn and sorghum fields.
BRM