Agriculture
No, Douala port’s general director Cyrus Ngo'o is not from the Anglophone region
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No, Chad and Equatorial Guinea are not providing assistance for the payment of Cameroonian civil servants’ salaries
Cameroon elaborates 29 mandatory standards for the agribusiness sector
Since November 10, 2019, the Cameroonian Standards and Quality Agency ANOR has been enforcing 29 mandatory standards for agri-food products. These...
Cocoa: Farmgate prices rise to XAF1,250
According to figures recently revealed by Système d’information de filières (SIF), a system that provides updated information about the coffee and...
There are many sectors in which Brazil can provide Cameroon its expertise - Vivian Loss Sanmartin
Brazil’s ambassador to Cameroon explores opportunities for a win-win cooperation between the two countries, especially related to agribusiness...
Sawn Timber: Cameroon becomes the EU’s leading supplier in Jan-Sep 2019
European Union (EU) countries imported 582,500 metric tons of tropical timber in the first nine months of 2019, according to the International Tropical...
Cameroon: Banana exports up by 661 tons YoY in October 2019
Banana exporters operating in Cameroon were more dynamic in October 2019, compared to their performance in October 2018. According to data compiled by the...
Cameroon: Banana exports close to 25% down YoY in Jan-Sep 2019
The volume of banana exported by producers operating in Cameroon between January and September 2019 was 155,435 tons. According to figures provided by the...
The drop in Cameroon’s plywood exports to the USA reached a peak of 88% in Aug 2019
Since January 2019, Cameroon’s exports of tropical plywood to the USA has been in constant decline, the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)...
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...
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...
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