South West Region: CDC suspend sales of non standard bananas

The Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), a public agro-industrial unit exploiting oil palms, rubber trees and banana trees in the South-West region of Cameroon, announced that it is putting aside its non-standard banana selling activity throughout 2016, we learned in an official communiqué signed by the company's MD, Franklin Ngoni Njié.

The temporary suspension of this activity, which will be restarted towards the middle of 2016 for the financial year 2017, the MD of CDC stresses, follows the restructuring plan currently underway in this state company.

Exporter of bananas toward the European market (approximately 60,000 tons per year), CDC, 2nd employer in Cameroon after the state, also supplies local consumers with the non-standard bananas, a product which does not conform to export specifications.

The suspension of this activity for 2016 should have a direct impact on not only the revenue of traders, but also on the availability of industrial bananas on the Cameroonian marke