Agriculture
Cameroon: Cocoa purchase prices drop to XAF1150 (max)
Since 27 May 2020, the upper bound of the average price per kilogram of cocoa beans in Cameroon has fallen to XAF1150. Compared to the average of XAF1200...
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 to import 90,000 tons of crude palm oil to guarantee supply for refiners this year
In Cameroon, refined vegetable oil and soap producers plan to import 90,000 tons of crude palm oil to supply refining plants. According to an...
Cameroon: Scet Tunisie-Coba wins XAF1.8 bln contract to rehabilitate rice fields in the Far North
The Scet Tunisia/Coba consortium has just been selected to carry out technical studies for the rehabilitation of the Maga and Yagoua rice fields...
Cameroon: The EU agrees for a 2-year extension of its banana support measures BAM
The European Union recently decided to extend, by 2 years, its Banana Accompanying Measures (BAM) programme being implemented in Cameroon over the past 7...
Cameroon: Banana exports up by 2,700 tons YoY in April 2020, despite coronavirus health crisis
In April 2020, Cameroon exported 16,102 tons of banana, according to the banana exporters association Assobacam. Compared with the 13,381 tons it exported...
Cameroon offers bags of fertilizers to boost coffee production in the Northwest
Nearly 35,000 coffee producers, grouped into 13 agricultural cooperatives in Cameroon's North-West region, recently received a shipment of 1,000 bags of...
Cameroon: Government to cover 10% of producers’ plantain banana seedlings need this year
Cameroon’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced the distribution of 1.5 million plantain banana seedlings for the 2020 agricultural...
Cameroon to distribute 6 mln cocoa seedlings to producers this year
This year, Cameroon plans to distribute 6 million cocoa seedlings to producers who want to create new farms or expand their existing ones, the Ministry of...
Cameroon: Banana exports down by over 13,000 tons YoY in Q1-2020
In Q1-2020, the volume of banana exported by producers still operating in Cameroon dropped by 13,143 tons. According to figures revealed by the...
Cameroon: Banana exports dropped by over 6,000 tons YoY in March 2020
In March 2020, the two banana producers still operating in Cameroon exported 13,891 tons of the product, according to data from the banana producers’...
Cameroon: Cocoa prices pick up again, spurred by rising demand
On April 1, 2020, the price of a kilogram of cocoa beans at the Port of Douala ranged between XAF1,050 and XAF1,150, according to figures revealed by SIF,...
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...
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...
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