Prime Minister Philemon Yang yesterday chaired the 13th session of National Road Board.

The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang who is the chairperson of the National Road Board has prescribed to the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development specialized mechanisms to open up access roads to remote agricultural productions zone, protected areas, forest reserves, touristic sites, as well as industrial zones.

The Permanent Secretary of the National Road Board, Moumbain Matapit Issofa made the revelation to journalists yesterday, January 17, 2013 at the end of the in-camera 13th session of the board chaired by Prime Minister Philemon Yang. The Prime Minister, he said, stated that Cameroon cannot attain the two-digit economic growth only from agriculture. Hence, the important role of the industrial sector. Mr Moumbain Matapit said only 8 kilometres of road are tarred in the country’s industrial zones.

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CAMEROON – Heifer International, an international integrated animal-agriculture development organisation, is to pilot a biogas production project in the country using pig manure.

Speaking to Cameroon Tribune recently in Yaounde, the Country Director, Dr Njakoi Henry, said the experiment will be conducted in the South West and Littoral Regions where there are large concentrations of pig farmers who are located close to the market in Douala.

“Producing biogas using pig manure is quite challenging because you need much of it to supply biogas digesters. It has worked well with poultry and dairy cow manure, and we now want to try pig manure,” said the Heifer International Cameroon boss. He however, pointed out that appropriate dimensions of biogas digesters have to be determined in order to ensure the success of the project.

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FCFA 360 million was on Thursday June 23 in Yaounde offered to 18 farmer groupings from 11 Divisions of the Centre and South Regions by the Project for the Improvement of Agricultural Competiveness, PACA, as part of government’s efforts to increase agricultural production and productivity.

Signing the funding agreements at the Mvog-Betsi Zoo conference hall, the Centre Regional Delegate for Agriculture and Rural Development, Gabriel Mbolo Mbolo, said the non-refundable funding demonstrated government’s concern for the plight of farmers.

He said the financial assistance was for 10 farmer groupings in livestock farming and eight others in crop farming; specifically in poultry, pig, maize, banana/plantain and palm oil processing. He expressed hope that the money would enable the farmers improve their yields, thereby becoming more competitive nationally and in the sub-region.

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