In his welcoming remarks, the producers' spokesperson, Roger NYADJOU, did not skimp on words to express the feeling of happiness and the state of mind of the populations in general and the producers in particular. Cameroon's cocoa producers, he acknowledged, "have now been talking, since 2023, as entrepreneurs, about their income in terms of millions." He continued: "The current improvement is the cyclical and structural consequence of a set of factors, including the clear-sighted and anticipatory option and choice of the marketing system applied in Cameroon and decided by the State Summit, totally in favor of the small producer."

Speaking in turn, the Minister of Commerce welcomed this public demonstration of recognition and gratitude from the cocoa producers of Moungo. He reminded the producers of Moungo, a department recognized as the main coffee-growing area in Cameroon, that the new configuration of the cocoa market, which is to their advantage, has been coupled, for the past two years, with a surge in coffee prices. Moungo producers are therefore surfing on two fronts at once, and that's a good thing. The Minister of Commerce also wanted to be reassuring for the future of our cocoa sector, basing his optimism on the fact that Cameroonian cocoa has moved from the status of a secondary origin to that of a reference origin, particularly prized and sought after on the market, as evidenced by the regular and repeated visits of the elite of the global chocolate industry to our country.

Domestically, the Government Member continued, a second market has been created, in line with the Head of State's Highest Directives aimed at the structural transformation of our economy, represented by local processing units, which are also very active in the search for the precious bean, all of which now place the producer in control. From this perspective, he specified, Moungo producers are certainly in the best position, thanks to the proximity of the Kekem industrial unit, whose installed capacity has increased from 35,000 to 80,000 tons of grinding in just a few years. The primary supplier of beans to this industrial unit will inevitably be the Moungo Department, which thus sees its future written in gold, the brown gold of cocoa.

CK, source CELCOM MINCOMMENCE