MACEFCOOP context in Cameroonian cocoa production

Cameroon is one of the six biggest cocoa producing countries. The others are Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria and Brazil.

Transporting dried and sorted MACEFCOOP cocoa to Douala, for shipping to overseas customers

	In a bid to diversify the economy in view of declining oil production, the Government launched recently a five-year campaign to revamp the cocoa sector and boost output to 200 000 tonnes per year. 160 000 tonnes of cocoa have been produced in 2003/04 in Cameroon, where between one million and two million people depend directly or indirectly on the cocoa sector. Food and Agriculture organisation of the United Nations, 2005