Agriculture
French chocolate-maker Puratos eyes Cameroonian cocoa
Today October 21, 2019, a delegation of French chocolate maker Puratos was in Ntui, in the Central region, Cameroonian Minister of commerce Luc Magloire...
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Germany offers a non-timber forest products’ processing plant to women in Northern Cameroon
GIZ, a German development agency, is currently building a store in Gashiga, not so far from Garoua, Northern Cameroon. The infrastructure, official...
Nigeria-Cameroon: Towards an association in the cocoa sector for better prices
Nigeria plans to associate with Cameroon to obtain better prices for their cocoa. This was announced, on October 10, 2019, by Sayina Riman, president of...
Cameroon: Boosted by PHP, banana exports rose by 3,200 tons in Sep 2019
In September 2019, the two banana exporters still operating in Cameroon exported 18,309 tons of banana, according to figures published by the banana...
Cameroon: XAF1,400 bln needed to boost rice production to 1.4 mln tons by 2024
XAF 1,400 billion is the amount needed to implement the recovery plan suggested by the Cameroonian Ministry of economy to relaunch the rice industry....
Programme agropoles has been struggling financially for three years now, the INS reveals
The national institute for statistics (INS) recently published a report assessing the Programme agropoles (PAG). This programme was implemented since 2016...
Cameroon: IDPs exposed to acute food insecurity in the NW and SW (FEWS NET)
Internally displaced people in Northwest and Southwest Cameroon are currently exposed to acute food insecurity. According to the USAID’s Famine Early...
Brazil to share its agricultural experience with Cameroon
On September 26, 2019, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the Brazilian embassy will organize an agribusiness seminar. During the seminar, organized in collaboration...
Cameroon: Banana exports recorded 2,200 tons YoY decrease in August 2019
In August 2019, the two banana producers still operating in Cameroon (PHP and Boh Plantations) exported 12,692 tons of the product. Compared with the...
SABC purchased about 30% of its inputs locally, between Jan-Aug 2019
From January to August 2019, Cameroonian brewer SABC spent more than XAF21 billion to purchase local agricultural raw materials and inputs used in beer...
Cameroon : Yearly soya imports estimated at XAF14 bln (Soproicam)
Every year, Cameroon imports about XAF14 billion of soya, the Soyabeans Processing Industry of Cameroon (Soproicam) indicated on September 4, 2019, in...
Cocoa : Prices stay above XAF1,010 for 20 days in a row in Cameroon
Since August 22, 2019, the minimum price for a kilogram of cocoa was XAF1,010 and a maximum of XAF1,040, according to daily pointers by Système...
Proven consumer association Acdic initiates petition to limit rice imports
Association citoyenne de défense des intérêts collectifs (Acdic), an association of the defence of citizens’ interests, recently initiated a petition...
Cocoa: Farmgate prices remain above XAF1,000 despite the rainy season in production basins
In the middle of the rainy season, the price of cocoa in the production basins in Cameroon remained over XAF1,000 per kilogram. According to Système...
Cameroon exported 17,752 tons of banana in July 2019
In July 2019, the banana exporters operating in Cameroon shipped 17,752 tons of the product. This is 4,231 tons higher than the shipments exported during...
PHP’s penja pepper production to drop to 9 tons this year because of fungi infestation
Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP) expects an output of nine tons this year, according to official sources. According to one of its top executives, the...
Penja pepper’s production threatened by biological pests
In 2018, Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP), Cameroonian subsidiary of Compagnie fruitière de Marseille, harvested only 12 tons of Penja Pepper, far below...
Cameroon launches the 2019-2020 cocoa campaign
On August 13, 2019, in Cameroon, the trade minister Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana launched the 2019-2020 cocoa campaign in Sangmelima,...
Cameroon : World Bank backs agricultural index insurance project with XAF270 mln
On August 2, 2019, an agricultural index insurance project was launched in Cameroon. This insurance uses objective and transparent parameters that do not...
CDC expected to partially resume activities in Q3, 2019
On July 25, 2019, Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC)’s de Mafanja I packing station in Tiko, Southwest Cameroon, was in a sad state. Only the guards...
Cameroon to create a plantain production basin in Kribi and neighboring areas
In Cameroon, the ministry of agriculture plans to provide equipment with which residents of Kribi and its neighbouring areas can produce up to 100,000...
Cameroon’s H1, 2019 banana exports drop by 61% YoY because of CDC’s problems
In H1, 2019, Cameroonian banana producers exported only 43,721 tons of the product. Compared with the 113,600 tons exported a year earlier, this...
CDC’s palm oil production dropped drastically in H1, 2019
Like its banana sector, Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC)’s palm oil sector has started a downward spiral. According to figures published on July 5,...
CDC still expecting remaining XAF9 bln of promised XAF13 bln to pay salary arrears
In June 2019, Cameroon authorized XAF13 billion to be provided to CDC to help it pay its salary arrears. Till July 5, 2019, CDC, the agribusiness...
Cameroon: CDC produced only 878 tons of rubber out of targeted 4,000 tons due to Anglophone crisis
In H1, 2019, Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) produced only 878 tons of rubber out of the targeted 4,000 tons. This was revealed by the...
Cameroon : Sodecoton expects 600,000 tons of yearly cotton production by 2025
During the sixth edition of Yaoundé international agribusiness fair, ended on July 7, 2019, Cameroonian cotton producer Société de développement du coton...
Cameroon exported 14,205 tons of banana in June 2019
In June 2019, Cameroon exported 14,205 tons of banana, the banana association Assobacam indicates. Compared with the 16,979 tons exported in June 2018,...
Cameroon: Affected by supply difficulties, tomato price rises significantly in the Far-North
In Maroua markets in the Far-North, a crate of tomatoes is now XAF14,000, L’œil du Sahel reveals. Three months ago, that same crate would have cost...
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