Local transformation of Cameroonian coffee envisaged

160,000 tonnes of coffee will be produced annually by 2020 and 40% of this production will be transformed locally, that is approximately 64,000 tonnes.

This was the ambitions of the revival plan recalled by Emmanuel Bonde, the Minister for the Mines, Industry and the Technological Development (Minmidt), during the official launching of a product locally processed by Nestle.

Together with Essimi Menye, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development (Minader), Emmanuel Bonde visited on the 29th of January, 2015 the Nestle factory in Cameroon, where the local packaging of Nescafé Classic 2g (G for grams,) took place.

A realization of the Cameroonian subsidiary company of the giant of agro-alimentary who, for Minmidt, is "a testimony of an effective public-private partnership in the development of industry in Cameroun registered at right-hand side of the policy of the State which planned to instigate agricultural fabric through the transformation with strong added value".

This positive initiative makes it possible to increase the rate of local transformation of coffee, which is now at 5%. The call was launched by Essimi Menye, Minader, who said, "We need to produce more to create more richness and to create more jobs, we need to produce, transform and sell."