Cameroon starts inventory of agro-pastoral production for FAO

The Cameroonian government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) officially started on May 14, 2014 in Yaoundé, the preparatory inventory work on agro-pastoral production in Cameroon. The programme will enter its practical phase in December 2015.

Senior officials of the Ministries of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry have explained that, meanwhile, technical documents are being prepared to draft the methodology and administrative procedures required to run the project. The inventory will be taken over a four-year period starting in 2015 to finish in May 2019, based on initial forecasts.

The inventory, which will enable the updating of Cameroon's agro-pastoral production, presented by the Minister of Agriculture, Essimi Menyé, as one of the key aspects of the transition to second generation agriculture, will cost the Cameroonian Treasury 8 billion FCfa. The FAO's technical support to the project is estimated to cost 221 million FCfa.