Min of Agric supports improved corn production

The improvement in the production of corn is at the center of the concerns in the ministry of Agriculture and rural Development which has just placed at the disposal of the producers, thousands tons of improved seeds through the national Program of support for corn (PNAFM).

The experimental program set up in the area of the East which relates to eighteen seed-bearer fields extending on a total surface from 449 hectares should make it possible to produce 900 tons of seeds of improved corn.

A project which should in particular make it possible to replace the genetically 'eroded' seeds, currently used by the majority of the producers of the country since the Eighties, by improved seeds likely to produce between six to eight tons with the hectare, against two to three with the hectare currently.

The national production of corn in Cameroon is officially around 1.8 million tons, for a national request estimated at approximately 2 million tons including needs for local brewery industry, that is to say a deficit of production of 200,000 tons.

These improved seeds constitute, for the farmers, a means of improving their productions and, by rebound, of solving this problem of deficit in offer of corn.