Agriculture
Adamaoua: Counterfeit drugs once again seized in Ngaoundéré
Cameroon acquires new ambulances to strengthen the national health system
Covid-19: The Subdivisional Officer of Meiganga sanctions individuals who do not respect preventive measures
Cameroon: Cocoa farm gate prices improve slightly to XAF1,000-1,050 per kilogram
Today February 24, 2021, the price of a kilogram of cocoa beans is ranging between XAF1,000 and 1,050 in production areas in Cameroon, according to SIF,...
Cameroonian food sovereignty activist Bernard Njonga passes on
On the night of February 21-22, 2021, Bernard Njonga, the agricultural engineer who became famous for his fight for food security in Cameroon, died...
Cameroon: Banana exports were down by 466 tons YoY in Jan 2021
In January 2021, banana producers operating in Cameroon exported 20,496 tons of banana, according to figures published by the Banana Association of...
Cocoa: Cameroon committed to ensuring full traceability by 2025
Cameroon is committed to ensuring the full traceability, from plantations to export terminals, of cocoa produced in the country by 2025. This was revealed...
CDC recorded XAF17.9 bln of net losses in 2019, CTR reveals
State-owned agribusiness Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) recorded a XAF17.9 billion net loss in 2019, according to a report published by the...
Cameroon: Banana exports were down by 8% YoY in 2020 despite CDC’s activity resumption
Banana exporters operating in Cameroon exported 187,884 tons of banana in 2020, against 204,320 tons in 2019, according to figures compiled by the Banana...
Patrice Yantho: Neo Industry is an “economically viable project …”
"We were the ones who conducted the negotiations for the purchase of this plant from equipment supplier Bühler, in Switzerland. We stopped working on this...
Cameroon: Safacam’s palm oil sales rose YoY in H1-2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic
In H1-2020, BVMAC-listed company Safacam sold 12,428 tons of palm oil, recording a turnover of XAF10.2 billion. During the same period in 2019, it sold...
Promagric seeks XAF115 mln to deliver orders to Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon
Cameroonian start-up Promagric, which developed ClinicAgro (a laboratory for plants and animals that diagnoses sick plants and offers adequate treatments...
Cameroon: Three additional cocoa Post-Harvest Treatment Centres of Excellence to be built in 2021
Cameroon’s sixth cocoa Post-Harvest Treatment Centre of Excellence is scheduled to be inaugurated today October 22, 2020, in Ntui (a cocoa producing area...
Cameroon: Banana exports dropped by about 19.5 k tons YoY in Jan-Sep 2020
Banana exporters in Cameroon exported 136,048 tons of the products between January and September 2020, according to data compiled by the Banana...
Cameroon inaugurates two new Post-Harvest Treatment Centres of Excellence in the central region
Today October 20, 2020, Cameroon’s Minister of Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, and his peer in charge of agriculture and rural development, Gabriel...
Cameroon: CDC still unable to find its momentum 4 months after activity resumption
Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) exported 1,312 tons of banana in September 2020, according to figures compiled by the Banana Association of...
Cameroon: Banana exports rose by 27.6% MoM to 17,939 tons in Sep 2020
Cameroon exported 17,939 tons of banana in September 2020, according to the Banana Association of Cameroon (Assobacam). Compared with the 12,982 tons the...
IRAD distributes 300 k cashew seedlings in Bertoua to boost production
On October 1, 2020, the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) distributed 300,000 cashew seedlings to farmers’ organizations in...
Cocoa purchase price rises to XAF1,050 despite rainy season
Yesterday October 5, 2020, cocoa purchase price rose to a high of XAF1,050 in Cameroon, after stagnating around XAF1,000 since September 3, 2020. This was...
Animal feed: Sodecoton forced to source new export markets due to drop in demand from Nigeria
“Insecurity in cotton production areas and the drop in demands from Nigeria (due to the collapse of the currency parity) deeply affected the animal feed...
Cameroon: Carrefour’s new stores to present increased supply opportunities for local suppliers
Luc Demez (Managing Director of the local subsidiary of French group Carrefour in Cameroon) recently announced that his group would open new stores in...
Cameroon: Cicam purchased only 1% of fiber cotton produced during the 2019-2020 campaign
Sodecoton produced a record 328,453 tons of cottonseed during the 2019-2020 cotton campaign, which was technically completed in May 2020. With that...
Cameroon plans to raise onion production to 200k tons this year through IFAD-funded program PADFA
Cameroon is planning to boost onion production. This was revealed during the signature, on September 25, 2020, of a credit agreement between the...
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