13,928 tons, this is the total amount of banana that Cameroon exported during the month of April 2023, according to data compiled by the Banana Association of Cameroon (Assobacam). Thus said, the Plantations du haut Penja (PHP) exported 11,336 tons, the Cameroon development corporation (CDC) 1,803 tons and the Boh Plantations (B PL) 789 tons.
Compared to April 2022 when the same operators had exported 18,247 tons of bananas, there is a decrease of around 4,319 tons (23.66%). In detail, this decline is accentuated at PHP, which has 11,336 tons exported in April 2023 compared to 15,030 tons in April 2022, a decrease of 3,694 tons (24.57%). It is followed by the petit poucet B PL whose performance shows a decline of 331 tons (29.55%), because in April 2022 it exported 1,120 tons before falling back to 789 tons a year later.
On the side of the state operator CDC, the decrease recorded is 294 tons (14.02%). We went from 2,097 tons in 2022 to 1,803 tons the following year. A situation to be linked to the security context in the Northwest and Southwest regions where the CDC plantations are located. It is also remembered that last February 5 employees killed while 45 others were injured by armed men.
Although we do not have all the data compiled in relation to the previous quarter, let us still recall that Beac in its forecast economic test announced that “banana production would decrease in the first quarter of 2023, due to the immaturity of plantations and soaring input prices,” reads the document
