Coffee: Actors Mobilise To Boost Production

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Coffee: Actors Mobilise To Boost Production

23 avril 2019 17:32

The 7th edition of the Coffee Tasting Day dubbed “Festicoffee” ends today in Yaounde on the theme “Act now for Coffee.”

Cameroon’s coffee production has been declining over the years. In the 90s, production stood at 130,000 tons but today, total national production stagnates at 25,000 tons. The disturbing production explains the choice of the theme of the seventh edition of the Coffee Tasting Day dubbed FESTICOFFEE which is “Act Now for Coffee.” With the theme, the National Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Council, organiser of the Festicoffee, is seeking ways of reawakening producers and rebound production. It also intends through the organisation of the coffee tasting events in different production basins (23 towns and 85 localities) encourage local consumption. Alongside the National Cocoa and Coffee Board, the Ministry of Trade and producers’ organisations, the objective of the coffee festival is to stir awareness of coffee production, its virtues and the need for Cameroonians to consume made-in Cameroon coffee, whose taste the Minister of Trade says is unique in the world. As explained by the CICC Communications Officer, Yves Abissi, the theme warrants urgent action to resuscitate Cameroonian coffee sector. According to CICC, it is possible to relaunch the sector given that Cameroon is endowed with conditions favourable for coffee production such as fertile soils for the cultivation of both Arabica and Robusta coffee, ideal climate and young and motivated population. Following the decline, the 2019 theme was inspired by three principal findings notably availability of improved plantlets, access to fertilizer and phytosanitary products and the youthful production force. This is why the CICC organised a brainstorming session dubbed “Tribune Café,” whic...