CMR to increase its pork production

With an annual swine production of 47,000 per year for a national demand of nearly 75,000 tons, Cameroon must import each year a little more than 17,000 tonnes to meet domestic demand, a gap of more than 40%.

This leads to a loss of foreign currency of about 42 billion CFA francs per year for the country. To fill this gap and reduce imports, the Cameroonian Government has set up an economic programme of land use for the promotion of enterprises in the rural sector in Cameroon.

Three agropoles have thus been created to increase pig production: the production and marketing of pork in Kribi; agropole of Bafoussam and finally that of Yaoundé.

To increase this still insufficient production, a workshop of building capacity for the benefit of these free farmers was held from 7th to 9th October 2014 in Yaoundé.

The Government intends to increase this production from 3,100 to 9,200 pigs for the agropole of Bafoussam; 3100 to 7,300 pigs for the agropole in Kribi and 5,000 to 25 600 pigs in Yaoundé.