Cocoa and Coffee: AGROPOLE Project To Enhance Processing, Marketting

The FCFA 3.4 billion project for the North West Region was launched on November 25, 2016.

A new chapter has opened for the coffee and cocoa sub sectors in the North West Region with the launching of the Regional Development Economic Programme for the Promotion of Medium and Large-scale Enterprises within the Rural Sector in Cameroon (AGROPOLE). The project will enhance production, processing and marketing of coffee and cocoa. Farmers of the North West Cooperative Association, (NWCA) sang and danced on November 25, 2016 when the National Coordinator of AGROPOLE, Adrian Ngo’o Bitomo and the management of the NWCA endorsed an agreement to give the sector a chance. The project seeks to improve the livelihoods of coffee and cocoa farming communities along the value chain.

The AGROPOLE project was launched in 2015, its coordinator revealed. He said the FCFA 3,393,062,435 allocation for the NWCA is intended to stimulate growth in the rural economy, double agricultural production by 2020, improve re-distribution of income and consequently contribute  towards alleviating poverty. Adrian Ngo’o Bitomo stressed that it is a project of hope to take Cameroon towards an emerging economy by 2035. AGROPLOE’s development priority arrears includes, development of access to land, selection, training and supervision of project holders, mechanizat...