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(Business in Cameroon) - On May 5, 2021, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute signed a decree canceling the incorporation of over 66,000 hectares of land located in the Ntem Valley, in the Southern region, into the state private domain. This decision marks the end of the industrial cocoa plantation and agribusiness technopole (PAC) projects proposed by Neo Industry and First Development Mission (FDM). At least, they will no longer be implemented on the lands set up for these purposes.
In the present interview, Samuel Nguiffo, secretary-general of the Center for Development and the Environment (CED Cameroon), which protects the rights of local and indigenous communities in the Central African region, presents the lessons to be learned from the government’s decision and suggests measures that could ensure a peaceful implementation of agribusiness projects in local communities.
Agriculture Prime Minister Dion Ngute cancels text consecrating the creation of over 66,000 ha land reserve in the Ntem Valley
(Business in Cameroon) - On May 5, 2021, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute (photo) signed a decree canceling a text signed in 2016 by his predecessor Philemon Yang to create an over 66,000 hectares land reserve in the Ntem Valley, in Southern Cameroon.
The Prime Minister’s decree ends the dispute between, for about five years now, the government and the Ntem Valley’s residents. However, it also crushes hopes to see the industrial cocoa plantation project carried out by Neo Industry and its promoter Samuel Neossi come to fruition.
(Business in Cameroon) - The Cocoa Development Company (SODECAO) is currently planning the distribution of 4 million high-yield cocoa seedlings, official sources reveal. The sources add that those seedlings can produce 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms of cocoa per hectare and are resistant to insect attacks that usually destroy plantations.
The distribution of the seedlings will help regenerate aging plantations or even facilitate the creation of new cocoa plantations in the country s production areas. That way, within two years, the national production will rise to meet increasing demand from the processors that recently entered the national market (Atlantic Cocoa and Neo Industry).
Cocoa is a cash crop that generates revenues for producers and fills the country’s foreign reserve. According to the 2019 report on Cameroon’s foreign trades, cocoa was the country’s 2