A hundred products bearing “Made in Cameroon” brand in the food industry.
It is barely a year since the “Made in Cameroon” label was officially presented to the public at the Edea trade fair for local products, and the document handed over to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Mines. This is the last label created by the Association of Ingenious African Entrepreneurs, the Ministry of Mines and AB Certification Afrique Subsaharienne SA.
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Recent studies on rice show that, in 2017, the sub-sector witnessed a trade balance deficit of about 184 billion CFA francs, representing an import volume of 628,400 tonnes of white rice. The deficit exceeded the 135 billion CF mark in 2010.
The national production of paddy rice, which was estimated at about 33 tonnes in 2017, is almost stagnant since 2011 despite the country's enormous potential arable land. The situation is all the more worrying given that rice plays a crucial...
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Cameroon imports more than it exports. This situation weakens its economy. So, to reverse this trend and achieve its set growth targets by 2035, the
country must double its exports over the next 11 years. To attain this goal, Cameroon must diversify its export products and explore new markets that are less demanding than the European Union (EU) and China, which are so far its main trading partners. In this vein, the updated version of the National Export Strategy was presented recently...
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