Agriculture
Cameroon’s coffee gains popularity in the Maghreb and Eurozone
Cameroon is still a small player in coffee production and marketing on the global market. Despite holding the 54th position worldwide in sales volume,...
Cameroon Over 5,000 tons of plastic packaging seized in 2023 (Minepded)
Minfopra Joseph Lé Announces Sigipes II Launch in 2024
Wildlife Trafficking in Cameroon: Drill Monkey Arrest Highlights Ongoing Crisis
Cameroon: An impactful minor player in global trade
Last year, Cameroon only covered 0.002% of the global market share, according to the report just released by the Competitiveness Committee, a specialized...
Cameroon's stakeholders finalize creation of cotton interprofession
From November 23 to 26, 2023, stakeholders in the cotton sector, including the Cotton Development Company (Sodecoton), the National Confederation of...
Poultry industry in Cameroon faces disagreements over chicken pricing
The Cameroon Poultry Interprofessional Association (Ipavic) sent a letter on October 23 to sector players, informing them of its intention to standardize...
Cocoa price peaks at CFA2,000 per kg in Cameroon, its 7th increase in 3 months
The price ceiling for cocoa beans in Cameroon has peaked at CFA2,000 since November 10. This is the 7th increase in three months. On November 7, the price...
Ceneema expands budget for arable land project pilot phase
The pilot phase of the arable land development project, as outlined in a framework signed on May 17, 2023, between the Ministry of Agriculture (Minader)...
CDC bolsters banana industry in October 2023, with exports surging by 58%
The Cameroon Development Corporation, the second-largest employer in the country after the central administration, exported a shipment of 2,586 tons of...
Safacam distributed nearly CFA500mln in dividends in 2022
The African Agricultural Forestry Company of Cameroon (Safacam), which specializes in palm oil and rubber production and sales, distributed an estimated...
AfDB launches TAAT-phase 2 in Cameroon
The African Development Bank (AfDB) officially launched the second phase of its Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation- TAAT in Cameroon....
Cameroon regulates chicken and egg prices to fight market speculation
The Cameroonian government is taking measures to set fair prices for chicken and eggs across the country. According to information reported on October 23...
Cameroon, and Russia mull over creating a coffee exchange
Cameroon’s trade minister, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, and the Russian ambassador to Cameroon, Anatoly Bashkin, have relaunched the project to create a...
Cameroon govt tightens cocoa sector anti-smuggling measures
The Cameroonian government is working on new regulations to combat the illegal export of cocoa beans in the country. Many observers believe the...
Cameroon govt, WFP partner on food security program in vulnerable regions
The Cameroonian government and the World Food Program signed a partnership on September 29 to implement a food security project for vulnerable communities...
Cameroon: Cocoa prices surge to CFA1,700 per kg in third consecutive hike
A third consecutive increase in just two weeks brought cocoa farm gate prices in Cameroon to CFA1,700 for the upper cap and CFA1,600 for the lower...
Cameroon: Attack on public agribusiness site Pamol leaves four dead
Public agribusiness unit Pamol Plantations Plc, which operates palm plantations in the Southwest region of Cameroon, confirmed an attack on its facilities...
Credit facilities up to CFA250mln available for the plantain sector
The Cameroonian government is making credit facilities ranging from CFA10 million to CFA250 million available to players in the plantain sector. The...
Cameroon: Cocoa farm gate prices up again, in just a week
Cocoa farm gate prices in Cameroon’s production areas rose again to CFA1,550 per kg for the lower limit and CFA1,650 for the upper cap. This price update,...
Agriculture Minister bans use of Ethephon to ripen plantains
The Cameroonian Minister of Agriculture, Gabriel Mbairobe (pictured), issued a note earlier this week calling on plantain producers to stop using Ethephon...
Southwest cocoa sales slump 40% yoy amid insecurity and smuggling to Nigeria
The Southwest region of Cameroon only accounted for 21.17% of the volume of cocoa beans acquired in the production basins during the 2022-23 season....
Cocoa farm gate price in Cameroon reached CFA1,600 in 2022-23
The price of cocoa beans in Cameroon's production areas reached CFA1,600 per kg at the beginning of this 2022-23 campaign. This price, according to data...
Telcar Cocoa shows weak momentum in 2022-23, despite recent share acquisition
Cocoa market leader Telcar Cocoa, the local dealer of American Cargill, has shown a weak dynamic over 2022-23. According to data compiled by the...
Premium cocoa production skyrockets, nearly quadruples since 2020-21
The production of premium cocoa in Cameroon has shown a strong upward momentum over the past two seasons. In 2022-23, the output was 681 tons, more than...
Cocoa production on a downward trend in Cameroon
Cameroon has seen its cocoa output down 11.2% YoY during the 2022-2023 season, which officially ended on September 7, 2023. Official figures revealed by...
Cameroon: Cocoa, wood, rubber, and bananas slow primary sector growth in Q1 2023
Despite an improved economy with a 3.2% GDP growth in Cameroon during the first quarter of 2023, the primary sector has experienced a slowdown in...
Banana exports in Cameroon dropped 12.2% YoY in Aug. 20323, despite record performance by CDC
Cameroon has suffered a 12.2% decline in the volume of bananas exported in August 2023 compared to the same period the previous year, the National Sector...
Cameroonian banker Josiane Tchoungui becomes MD of Atlantic Cocoa
Cameroonian banker Josiane Salomé Tchoungui is the new Managing Director of Atlantic Cocoa, the first cocoa processing company to be established at the...
Bananas: CDC exports reached 15,712 tons in Jan-Jul 2023, up 31% YoY
Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), which has borne the brunt of the Anglophone crisis since late 2016, exported 15,712 tons of bananas between...
Cashew: IRAD distributes 50,000 seedlings in Meiganga, Adamaoua
The Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) recently distributed 50,000 cashew seedlings to farmers in Meiganga, Adamaoua. Officially,...
Palm oil refinery: Four new operators to soon become operational, despite short raw oil supply
Four new palm oil refiners will enter the Cameroonian market in the coming months, according to sources inside the Oilseeds Refiners Association...
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