(Business in Cameroon) - On March 26, 2018, Cameroon’s government offered farm inputs, weedicides and crop sprayers to farmers deemed vulnerable in Fundong. The aim of this government action is to improve these farmers'  productivity.

In detail, it is 1,000 bags of inputs, 500 crop sprayers and 1,000 sachets of weedicides, which were distributed to about 1,000 families in that region in the framework of the project Filets sociaux financed by World Bank and Cameroon.

Let’s note that about 20,500 households have already benefited from the project Filets sociaux which was experimented for the first time in Cameroon between November 2013 and January 2016 to reduce poverty and food insecurity in Souledé-Roua which is considered as the poorest commune in the country.

In view of the success of the pilot phase that consisted notably in giving money to the vulnerable people, the government decided to implement this project in other regions to reduce the poverty level of poor households.  

BRM