Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – The production of cocoa and coffee has been steadily increasing in Cameroon since the 2008/2009 farming season, thanks to the return to best farming practices, the Chairman of the Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Board (CICC), Apollinaire Ngwe said in Douala on July 1 during the 18th general assembly meeting of the board.
Students in Free Enterprise are all set to re-launch Café Cameroon as the previous suppliers faced financial troubles to carry the business forward.
Sales statistics show 232 918. 873 tons of cocoa in the 2010/2011 farming season against 202 469.694 tons in the 2009/2010 farming season.
The statistics for coffee show 46,000 tons in 2010/2011 farming season and 38,000 tonnes in the 2009/2010 season.
Mr Ngwe speaking during the occasion said the cocoa and coffee sector constitute a self-employment deposit for youths who must invest in setting up nurseries.
The Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Board is fighting hard to stamp out the actions of middlemen in the marketing chain that make it difficult to organise and follow-up domestic sell of the two products, the board chairman disclosed.
He further said much efforts are needed to encourage the setting up of domestic medium-sized processing enterprises and stop anarchy in the production zones caused by non-identified operators.
“We must maintain our engagement to mobilise all operators in the different in the cocoa and coffee chain in order to cleanse the sector”, Apollinaire Ngwe said.
The board members voted FCFA 1.1 billion as the 2011 budget of the CICC and planned to build ovens and drying slaps for the two products with financing from the Cocoa and Coffee Development Fund.
