600 billion set aside to revive cocoa and coffee channels

The Government envisages an annual production of about 600,000 tonnes of cocoa and 170,000 tonnes of coffee in the year 2020.

By 2020, Cameroon intends to reach an annual production of 600,000 tonnes of cocoa, 125,000 tonnes of Robusta coffee and 35,000 tonnes of Arabica coffee.

The recovery of these sectors plan has been validated on Tuesday, September 30, 2014, at a meeting chaired at the star building by René Emmanuel Sadi, Minister of Territorial Administration and decentralization, on behalf of the Prime Minister Philemon Yang.

To achieve this volume of production, some six hundred billion Cfa Francs will be needed. A good part of this budget would be derived from these sectors themselves while the rest will have to come from the State and development partners.

The strategy proposed to the Government recommended inter alia the generalized treatment of existing orchards. "If we treat all orchards, from next year, we will win at least 40% on production next year and so we can easily switch beyond 300 000 and 310 000 tonnes", explains Evariste Evane, Division of industry and Commerce at the Prime Minister's Office, questioned by the national radio.

The plan also provides the establishment of new farms with emphasis on the availability of plants and their wide distribution. "We have objectives amounting to 10 million plan annually, with techniques that we are experimenting as the bio manufactures through the Sodecao and other techniques of multiplication of plants.", adds our interlocutor. The component 'research' is also a capital place in this strategy proposed to the Government.

Currently, annual Cameroon cocoa production is estimated at approximately 206,000 tonnes. The strategy proposed to the Government therefore plans to almost triple that volume of production. On the side of coffee, there is a need for more effort as the current production ranges between 23000 and 25000 tonnes / year.