Agriculture

Cameroon: Investors Seek to Boost Biofuel Production – AllAfrica.com

The Bollore Group controls more than 80 percent of palm-oil production in Cameroon, mostly for export, and now plans to boost its production of biofuels significantly beyond the current rate of 100,000 litres per annum, although targets have not yet … Continue reading

Herakles Farms Announces Update on Its Cameroon Palm Oil Subsidiary SGSOC – Yahoo Finance

NEW YORK, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Herakles Farms, a New York-based agriculture company operating in Ghana and Cameroon, today announced new details for its Cameroon palm oil subsidiary, SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), and its …

Herakles Farms Announces Update on Its Cameroon Palm Oil Subsidiary SGSOC – Sacramento Bee

NEW YORK, June 12, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Herakles Farms, a New York-based agriculture company operating in Ghana and Cameroon, today announced new details for its Cameroon palm oil subsidiary, SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), and its …

Herakles Farms Announces Update on Its Cameroon Palm Oil Subsidiary SGSOC – StreetInsider.com

NEW YORK, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Herakles Farms, a New York-based agriculture company operating in Ghana and Cameroon, today announced new details for its Cameroon palm oil subsidiary, SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), and its …

Cameroon’s Average Cocoa Exports Fell 1.1% in Week – Bloomberg

Cameroon’s average cocoa export price fell 1.1 percent to 1,132 CFA francs ($2.15) a kilogram (2.2 pounds) in the week to June 11 from a week earlier, according to Bloomberg calculations using the Cocoa and Coffee Board’s data. A total … Continue reading

Herakles Farms Announces Update on Its Cameroon Palm Oil Subsidiary SGSOC – PR Newswire

NEW YORK, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Herakles Farms, a New York-based agriculture company operating in Ghana and Cameroon, today announced new details for its Cameroon palm oil subsidiary, SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), and its decision to …

Nigeria: Nation to Benefit From U.S.$13.5 Million Cocoa Initiative – AllAfrica.com

Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire. He said that other agencies that would join the initiative are the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, which would provide expertise in genetics, and the Alliance of Cocoa-Producing Countries.

Cameroon’s Investment Potentials Highlighted – AllAfrica.com

On its green front page depicting Cameroon’s tropical forest, the 24-page magazine opens the incisive reports with a general headline, “De grandes ambitions dans la criossance verte.” American investors in the oil palm sector, Koreans in urban transport …

Peterson Press Fuel Briquette Project – Oregonian

Fuel briquettes, an alternative to wood or charcoal, can be made from free or very low-cost materials such as dried leaves, grass, banana peels, rice and coffee husks … Republic of the Congo, Congo, Cameroon, Senegal, Ghana, Haiti, Guatemala …

Congo-Brazzaville: Sassou Draws in Beijing – AllAfrica.com

In 2010 Atama Plantation agreed to invest $300 million in new oil palm plantations and processing capacity … The town, in the far north close to the Cameroon border and surrounded by deep rainforest, was until recently a remote backwater.