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CAMEROON – Over 7 million cocoa and coffee plants to be distributed to farmers in 2015

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Economy Minister, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, announced in a press release on January 9, 2015, that, as a part of its initiative to increase agricultural yield, government will be producing and distributing some 7.2 million cocoa and coffee plants to farmers throughout 2015.

Plants distributed by the government will be mostly cocoa seedlings (5.4 million) while the remainder (1.2 million and 600,000 respectively) will be Arabica and Robusta coffee.

With these new plants announced by the government, cocoa and coffee sectors will have additional production plantations in 3 years with improved production generating instead of the current 210,000 tonnes of cocoa and 16,000 tonnes of coffee.

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