Agriculture 
Cameroon cocoa exports down 11 pct on year so far – YAHOO!
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon exported 174,399 tonnes of cocoa beans to end-June since the beginning of the season last August, 11 percent below the 196,068 tonnes shipped during the same period a year ago, the National Cocoa and Coffee Board … Continue reading
DJ Cameroon Grinder’s August-June Cocoa-Bean Intake Little Changed -CCIB – MENAFN
YAOUNDE, Cameroon–The cocoa intake for the Cameroon unit of Switzerland-based Barry Callebaut AG (BARN.EB) between August and June of the ongoing 2011-12 season was 28,467 tons, little changed from the 28,200 tons it bought during the same period in the … Continue reading
Cameroon Cocoa Grinder June Purchases Fall to Zero, Report Says – Businessweek
Cocoa purchases by Cameroon’s major grinder of the chocolate ingredient fell to zero in June, the Cocoa and Coffee Board and the Cocoa and Coffee Interprofessional Board said in a joint report. Sic-Cacao and Chococam bought no beans compared …
Cameroon coffee exports plunge: report – Marketwatch
The statistics from the Cocoa & Coffee Interprofessional Board, or CCIB, showed the country exported 4,848 tons of arabica coffee in June 2012, up from 2,486 tons exported in June of the last season. The robusta coffee season in Cameroon … Continue reading
Cameroon Cocoa Exports Dropped 43% in June, Commodity Groups Say – Businessweek
Cocoa exports from Cameroon, Africa’s fourth-largest producer of the crop, fell 43 percent in June, one month from the end of the season, according to the country’s Cocoa and Coffee Board and the Cocoa and Coffee InterProfessional Board.
Cameroon cocoa exports down 11 pct on year so far – Reuters
YAOUNDE, July 20 (Reuters) – Cameroon exported 174,399 tonnes of cocoa beans to end-June since the beginning of the season last August, 11 percent below the 196,068 tonnes shipped during the same period a year ago, the National Cocoa and … Continue reading
Chocolate maker looks to expand – Business Day South Africa
In the past five years it has opened factories in Cameroon, India, Russia and Canada … were imitations of its signature gold-wrapped Rocher chocolate, which sells more than 4,6-billion single units annually in more than 130 countries on five continents.
No food crisis yet as grain prices soar: U.N. – in.news.yahoo.com
Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economist and grain expert at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO … sparking violent protests in countries including Egypt, Cameroon and Haiti. “It is a serious situation which has to be monitored closely but …
Mali refugee overspill worsens Sahel food crisis – YAHOO!
Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cameroon and Chad were principally affected … Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). Though Chad’s Agriculture Minister Adoum Djimet maintains the crisis is “under control”, the …
Mali refugee overspill worsens Sahel food crisis – ca.news.yahoo.com
Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cameroon and Chad were principally affected … Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). Though Chad’s Agriculture Minister Adoum Djimet maintains the crisis is “under control”, the …
