(Business in Cameroon) - Yaouba Abdoulaye, Cameroon’s delegated minister of economy, announces that instructions have been given for the launch of three rice production agropoles in Nkoteng, Nanga-Eboko in Lékié department, during Q1 2018.

He revealed this on January 15, 2018, during a field visit in the central region; this in the framework of a prospecting mission in order to launch a program to promote rice farming in five regions of Cameroon, namely the Far-north, the North, the West, the Northwest and the Centre.

According to government authorities, the programme should help the country boost its production, from 100,000 tons of rice now, to more than a million tons.

BRM