30 grouped cocoa marketing markets established in Boumba-and-Ngoko

This was the main resolution taken at the end of the producers training provided for by the CICC in Yokadouma and Moloundou, from 23 to 25 September 2014.

The Boumba and Ngoko Department is part of the cocoa production basins at the national level. But producers have difficulty marketing their production because of the remoteness and the isolation of the roads.

It is in this context that the inter-professional Council for cocoa and coffee (CICC) programmed a series of training for producers in this Department. The objective is to offer them appropriate frameworks where they can negotiate, market and sell collectively, without being cheated as in the past, in order to truly benefit from the products of their labor.

The training took place September 23-25 at Yokadouma and Moloundou, respectively. Producers, well built on the new deal, agreed on the creation of 29 markets grouped and divided in four districts in the Boumba and Ngoko Department. They will be functional during the cocoa open campaign from 2014/2015. For André Marie Mathias Lema, technical director at the CICC, the bulk of cocoa sale will allow producers to improve their income, and considerably reduce the bad practices egularly denounced. Mr Lema adds that bundled sales which can be organized either by convention or by tender, offer growers the choice to discuss, to negotiate a fair price for their product. If the sale is by convention, the buyer has obligations, profitable to planters (investment, the granting of inputs).

This fits into the support programme by the commercial organization (AOC) set up by the CICC, in the large basins of production across the country. Cooperative society of agro-pastoral producers of Boumba - and - Ngoko (SOCOPLABONG) takes over the monitoring of the market in each grouping centre.

According to the departmental trade delegate, Emmanuel Blaise Mimbala, grouped procurement organization will optimize the sale of cocoa in the Boumba-and-Ngoko. And the representatives of the prefect of the Boumba-and-Ngoko, Daniel Arthur Obama invited planters to enter the new orientation of sales in appropriate frameworks.