Handicrafts in Cameroon would soon be sold abroad via the internet to give a boost to the handicraft industry.

The revelation was made recently in Limbe by the Minister of Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Handicrafts, Prof. Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa as he commissioned the newly built structure known as the Southwest Regional Handicraft village or centre.

According to The Minister, there are plans by the Government to soon boost the sales of handicrafts from Cameroon via the internet to the US, European and other markets abroad.

The Minister said the Government was already hatching plans to link the centers to the net and institute e-commerce facilities to aid the sales of the products via internet.

“I would want to announce that the project is such that the Government intends to computerize the system so that we can carry out e-commerce with the US, Europe and other countries,” the Minister said.

The Southwest centre which is among the ten centres found in the ten regions of Cameroon shall serve the hundreds of handicrafts persons in the Region as their exhibition centre or stand for the sale of their products or crafts.

The opening of the Southwest Centre was crowned with the installation of a Management Committee with the Southwest Governor, Okalia Bilai, as the President.