Cameroon: Cocoa and coffee producers project

Published 2021년 9월 29일

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The Agriculture and Rural Development Minister of Cameroon, Gabriel Mbairobe, has launched the Producers' Desk, a mechanism to provide mass government subsidies to cocoa and coffee producers. The government's goal is to increase cocoa production to 640,000 tons and coffee production to 160,000 tons by 2030. The fiscal year 2021 budget for this initiative is FCFA 6.2 billion, with an expected growth to FCFA 50 billion in the next five years. The Minister highlighted insufficient funding as a challenge in the agricultural sector, which the Producers' Desk aims to address. Emmanuel Kamayou, a representative of producers in the South West Region, welcomed the move, citing challenges such as poor infrastructure, aging farms, and limited arable land that have hindered production.

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Agriculture and Rural Development Minister gave the kick off in Buea on September 24, 2021. This Producers' Desk, a new mechanism that will enable cocoa and coffee producers within Cameroon's various agricultural basins to directly receive government subsidies on a mass basis, was launched in Buea on Friday September 24, 2021 by Gabriel Mbairobe, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. It was established that the government's objective is to increase national cocoa production to 640,000 tons by 2030 compared to the 257,151 tons during the 2019/2020 season. For coffee, the target production is 160,000 tons compared to the 22,000 tons currently. For the fiscal year 2021, the budget envelop is FCFA 6.2 billion and is expected to grow exponentially to reach FCFA 50 billion within the next five years. Minister Gabriel Mbairobe noted that insufficient funding remains one of the problems in the development of agricultural sector with cocoa and coffee subsectors among those ...

Source: All Africa