Agriculture
BC-PME opens agricultural funding window of XAF200 mln
Banque camerounaise des petites et moyennes entreprises (BC-PME) recently opened an agricultural financing window. This window was opened following an...
France and the EU condemn the Bamenda and Galim attacks
Accused of conspiracy against Cameroon, Human rights group Redhac announces a judicial complaint against Paul Atanga Nji
Government’s HIMO operation slows youth recruitment into Boko Haram sect in the Northwest
Cameroon: Short rainy season’s onset induces a slight drop in Cocoa prices
Although there are no abundant rainfalls yet, the short rainy season effectively started in Cameroon since March 15, 2020. According to the National Cocoa...
CEMAC: Forest products price index was up by 3.6% in Q4-2019
In Q4, 2019, the price of forest products increased by 3.6%, according to the composite index of commodities exported by CEMAC countries recently...
CEMAC: Palm oil boosted the price index of agricultural products exported in Q4, 2019
In Q4, 2019, the price index of agricultural products exported by CEMAC countries rose by 6.3%, against a 1.9% drop in the previous quarter, according to...
Cameroon seeks IDB’s XAF64.3 bln loan to boost the cotton and soya sectors
Once again, Cameroon, as it did in late 2018, is turning to the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) for a Murabaha funding contract...
Plantations du Haut Penja seeks agricultural tractor supplier for its operations in Cameroon
Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP), Cameroonian subsidiary of French Compagnie fruitière de Marseille, recently launched a 3-lot bid solicitation for the...
Cameroon : Rice producers in the Far-North to receive XAF1.2 bln of infrastructures by May 2020
In Far-North Cameroon, the government will build farm inputs’ storage warehouses for rice producers supervised by Semry. The project, funded by the World...
Flood control: 6,000 ha of rice paddies renovated in the framework of project Pulci
Two months to the end of the Emergency Flood Control Project Pulci, launched in Cameroon in 2013, the World Bank (the project's main backer) is reviewing...
Cameroon: Banana exports down by over 6,500 tons in Feb 2020
In February 2020, the two banana exporters still active in Cameroon exported 14,965 tons of the product. According to the banana exporters’ association...
Cameroon: 140,000 farmers benefited from the PIDMA since its launch (World Bank)
From 2014 to date, 140,000 Cameroonians benefited from the agricultural products and services of PIDMA, a scheme set up to improve the productivity and...
Cameroon : British Diageo provides over XAF2.5 bln revenue to sorghum producers yearly
Through its local subsidiary Guinness Cameroon, the British brewery group Diageo purchases more than XAF2.5 billion worth of sorghum from farmers every...
About 6,000 Cameroonians earn a living through the sorghum supply chain set up by Guinness Cameroon
In its bid to reduce the importation of raw materials used in the production of its beverages, Guinness Cameroon set up a sorghum supply chain that starts...
Cameroon : PCP-Afop to train 3,500 people in agropastoral and fishing sectors in 2020-2021
The agropastoral and fishing training programme PCP-Afop, steered by the Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock, has just launched the recruitment of the...
Farm mechanization : SODECOTON shows its recent research works
In Cameroon, Sodecoton recently organized an agro event on the mechanization of agricultural operations in the cotton-producing areas. The event...
AFCA regional coffee competition : NWCA’s sample selected as best coffee in Cameroon
The National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB) informs that it recently hosted a national coffee competition. Called “Taste the Harvest,” this competition was...
Activa and Axa pay first compensations in the framework of the index-based agricultural insurance
Last February 4, in Garoua, insurance companies Activa and Axa proceeded to the payment of more than XAF23 million to cotton producers as compensation for...
Cameroon : Coffee cooperative Uccao launches recruitment for a new managing director
Union Centrale des Coopératives Agricoles de l'Ouest (Uccao), Cameroon's largest coffee producers’ cooperative, has just launched a call for applications...
Cameroon plans to reach a production of 50,000 tons of cashew nuts in 2025
Cameroon’s ambition, in the framework of its national strategy for the promotion and development of the cashew sector, is to reach a production of 50,000...
Cameroon sets over XAF1 bln budget to promote cashew nut production in 2020
In the 2020 budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, Cameroon set aside a little over XAF1 billion for the promotion of cashew nut production. The...
Cameroon : Banana exports down 535 tons YoY in Jan 2020
In Cameroon, the two active banana exporters were less dynamic in January 2020. Compared to the country’s banana exports in January 2019, the January 2020...
Cameroon : Minimum cocoa farm gate price drops to XAF1,080 per kilogram
Since December 31, 2019, the farm-gate price per kilogram of cocoa beans in Cameroon's production basins has declined slightly from a high of XAF1,250 to...
Cameroon : A half-billion Sorghum husking unit inaugurated in the Far-North
On January 10, 2020, the Cameroonian Minister of Agriculture Gabriel Mbairobe inaugurated a sorghum husking and storing unit in Maroua, the capital...
Cameroon : Banana exports 1,036 tons up YoY in Dec 2019
In December 2019, the volume of banana exported by producers reached 16,641 tons, according to figures published by the Banana producers’ association...
Cameroon : 300,000 fingerlings to be distributed to fish farmers in 2020 to boost production
The marine fishing development agency CDPM plans to distribute 300,000 fingerlings to local fish farmers to contribute to an improvement of aquaculture...
Cameroon : Castel group plans to go into the agriculture sector
In Cameroon, French brewery group Castel is planning investments in the agriculture sector. On December 20, the CEO of the group, Pierre Castel and a...
Cameroon has approved 1,153 phytosanitary products since 1996
Since the launch, in 1996, of phytosanitary certificates, Cameroon, through the Ministry of Agriculture, has approved 1,153 phytosanitary products for use...
Cameroon seeks investors for large rice-growing project in the Far-North
On December 5, 2019, Cameroon, through the ministry of agriculture and rural development (Minader) issued a call for expression of interest for local and...
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