The country plans to bring potato production to 507,000 tons of potatoes nationwide in 2023.
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With the contribution of Cameroon’s development partners such as the International Potato Center; German cooperation (GIZ) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Minader), the Western region contributes at least 55% to national potato production.
According to Minader figures, yields in the Western region in 2022 reached around 140,000 tonnes out of 120,000 hectares cultivated in major basins such as the Bamboutos; Menoua; the High Plateaux; the Mifi and the Noun. The country plans to make potato production at 507,000 tons of potatoes at the national level in 2023. Production forecasts which remain negatively impacted by the unavailability of seeds; plant pathologies; scarcity of inputs and land issues.
In order to support producers in the various production basins of the Western region, in addition to the support of partners, the government has set up greenhouses in most of the areas concerned and the first products of this initiative are expected. by the 2024 agricultural campaign. The government initiative should make it possible to reduce the shortage of seeds at the regional and even national level.
With a rate of contribution to national production assessed between 55% and 60%, the Western region had produced 138,000 tonnes of potatoes in 2022, on a projection of 244,000 tonnes on 12,000 hectares of exploited land, i.e. approximately 1,000 producers listed on the register of cooperatives at the regional level.
