Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Esther FOSSI
Published on 2024-03-11 10:07:17
The Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of Japan in Cameroon, Ikeda Kiyohiko, and the Resident Representative of UNIDO, Raymond Tavares, signed a protocol agreement on March 5th in Yaoundé.
Through the “Sustainable Trade Skills Promotion Project” of UNIDO, the Japanese nation is unlocking a check of 1.3 billion CFA francs to revive these two cultures.
This project will, over a period of three years, support the cocoa and coffee value chain through the application of technology and strengthen the capacities of producers to increase their competitiveness and productivity, while improving the quality of products and their market placement processes, according to Raymond Tavares.
According to the UNIDO representative, this initiative involves providing technical training to cocoa and coffee producers and processors and supporting cooperatives in selected regions to improve post-harvest processing practices and find outlets for these products.
Furthermore, it also involves equipping targeted producers and cooperatives to improve the competitiveness and quality of products, and thereby increase their incomes. The objective is to promote sustainability and strengthen the competitiveness of Cameroonian cocoa and coffee in the global market.
This Japanese support comes at a time when the Cameroonian government is implementing various strategies to revitalize its Cocoa-Coffee sector. For example, the producer desk of the Cocoa and Coffee Value Chains Development Fund was launched in 2021. One can also mention the Coffee Sector Revitalization Support Project (Parf-café), the second session of the steering committee’s work took place on Thursday, August 24, the Cocoa Development Project (Pad-cacao), in which the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Fodecc plan to inject 40 billion CFA francs over the period from 2022 to 2026.
Read the original article(French) on Journal du Cameroun
