Agriculture

SABMiller plc : – Trading Statement – 4-traders (press release)

Castel’s full year lager volumes (excluding the successful management combination of our Angola businesses and their Madagascar acquisition) grew by 11% with good volume performances in Cameroon … world’s largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products.

NY sugar ends at 11-month low, cocoa down, coffee up – Reuters

Cameroon’s sole cocoa grinder, Sic-Cacaos, purchased 27,935 tonnes of cocoa by the end of March since the start of the 2011/12 season in August – National Cocoa and Coffee Board. For related news and prices, click on the codes in … Continue reading

Cargill Unveils U.S. $82 Million Upgrade to its Cocoa Processing Facility in Wormer, the Netherlands – Yahoo Finance

handling and/or exporting of cocoa beans in Brazil, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia and Vietnam. Presence in all the leading producing countries allows Cargill to oversee the supply chain from beans at origin to cocoa and chocolate products …

Occupy Bohemian Grove: State of the Counterculture Union – Salon

My secret tropical island paradise had frozen to record low temps – black ice slicked the pavement, palm trees were brown … the day of the BP Oil Catastrophe. That’s about the time Obama went gray, when he started looking … Continue reading

Cameroon arabica coffee exports rise 50 pct – Reuters

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon arabica coffee exports rose 50 percent to 541 tonnes from October to March 31 compared with the previous year on increased production boosted by higher coffee prices, regulator National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB …

Cameroon: Muea-Buea – Man Hangs After Love Deception – AllAfrica.com

Cameroon Tribune gathered from the deceased’s younger sister … Two of his neighbours persuaded him to drink palm oil, to no avail. This according to them, would have countered the effects of the poisonous bleach. When his mother returned from … Continue reading

Cameroon: Enhancing Cocoa/Coffee Competitiveness – AllAfrica.com

The subject was under scanner during a seminar of exporters of the cash crops in Douala April 17 and 18. Though Law n°95/11 of July 27, 1995 relating to the commercialization of cocoa and coffee recognizes the specificities of the … Continue reading

Struttin’ their stuff – Daily Hampshire Gazette

Last year, with the help of Dean Cycon of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company, the group contributed $20,000 to construct a school in Cameroon through the British-based nonprofit Building Schools for Africa. The school opened last month.

Cameroon arabica coffee exports up 50.6 pct first six months of 2011/12 season – Xinhua News Agency

Cameroon exported some 541 tonnes of arabica coffee in the first six months of 2011/12 season, up from 359 tonnes by the same date in 2011, representing an increase of 50.6 percent, according to statistics from the National Cocoa and … Continue reading

Showtime adapting Seth Greenland’s “The Angry Buddhist” novel – PanARMENIAN Network

The drama with dark comedy elements is set in the high California desert between the trailer parks and amphetamine labs of Desert Hot Springs and the classic mid-century architecture of Palm Springs … deadline to review Iran oil embargo impacts … Continue reading