Introduction to Cameroon Coffee

In fact, the coffee industry has been in decline for nearly three decades. Coffee used to be the largest export agricultural product in Cameroon, but it has now dropped to the fifth largest export agricultural product in Cameroon. Experts pointed out that if the depressed situation of the coffee industry is not improved, the coffee industry may die out. In 1986, the annual output of Kha coffee reached an all-time high of 132000 tons, making it the 12th largest coffee producer in the world. Today, nearly 30 years later, coffee production has plummeted by 100000 tons, with an average annual decline of 0.4 percent. Cameroon has become a small coffee producer on the African continent, and its coffee exports rank fifth in the African region, behind Uganda, Ethiopia, C ô te d'Ivoire and Tanzania. At present, 400000 rural households in Cameroon are engaged in coffee cultivation, and about 2.8 million people depend on coffee production and cultivation for a living.

According to an analysis by the Coffee and Cocoa Industry Association (CICC), the continued downturn in the coffee industry is caused by a variety of reasons. From an external point of view, the decline in the international price of coffee makes coffee growers unprofitable. From the perspective of internal factors, including the extreme shortage and high price of agricultural means of production, the shortage of excellent seed breeding institutions for coffee, the reduction of coffee planting scale and the decline of productivity, the aging of coffee growers and the lack of coffee industry attractiveness to young people, coffee industry chains, especially the lack of coffee cleaning and pulping equipment.

To this end, the Coffee and Cocoa Industry Council formulated and issued an emergency plan to rescue and promote the sustainable development of the coffee industry, with a view to revitalizing the coffee industry. Measures to revitalize the coffee industry include the renovation of coffee plantations and the rejuvenation of coffee farmers, access to the land and funds needed to grow coffee and the professionalization of coffee workers.