((Business in Cameroon) - Business in Cameroon) - Cassava producers in Sangmelima, South Region of Cameroon, will soon be dotted with a cassava processing plant. After a meeting of stakeholders of the project in the locality recently, a company to pilot the affairs of the soon-to-be-created plant was set up.

“Société de transformation industrielle de manioc (SOTRAMAS)” or Industrial Cassava Processing Company, as it is called, would process about 120 metric tonnes of cassava per day (48,000 metric tonnes per year) and generate about 180 direct jobs.

Focus of the plant will be the production of starch which is said to be selling like hot cake in the national and international markets. Jointly funded by the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Crafts of Cameroon and the Sangmelima council to the tune of FCFA 1.2 billion, the plant is almost at the stage of finishing and the project is to boost the industrialisation process undertaken by public authorities in Cameroon.

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