According to the Inter-professional Organisation for Coffee and Cocoa (CICC), Cameroon exported 3,207 tonnes of cocoa in March 2014, compared to 8,046 tonnes a year earlier. This marks a substantial decline of close to 60%. In February 2014, exports of this product had reached 6,580 tonnes. In a month, therefore, Cameroon cocoa exports plummeted by more than 50%, which amounts to approximately 3,273 tonnes.
Both at the CICC and the National Cocoa and Coffee Board (ONCC), this drastic decline in exports is attributed to weather that was far from conducive to good harvests in the country’s production zones.
This bad turn of events has impacted exporters’ dynamism. Indeed, according to the CICC, there were only seven in Cameroon’s cocoa/coffee market in March 2014 as opposed to 17 in February. Sources assert that the top exporter for the said period, with 853 tonnes, contrasted with Armajaro Cameroon’s 351 tonnes, is Camaco (Cameroon Marketing Commodities).