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138 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential

Table 5. MINADER Programs and projects involved in supporting food chains (Cont.)

Project / program name Focus of intervention Areas of

intervention

Other

observations

11. Relaunching rice production

in the Logone Valley.

• Structuring rice producers


• Establish a fertilizer revolving fund

SEMRY Area /

Far North

HIPC funding

12. Project against the major
    scourges of food production
    Target / beneficiaries:

• Food producers


• Producer organizations


• MINADER plant bases
  
  
  • Strengthening producers’ organizational capacities (inter-
    vention village brigades: phytosanitary advisers, support for
    equipment and treatment products, training)
  
  
  • Strengthening the operational capacity of the air way treat-
    ment unit
  
  
  
  

Countrywide HIPC funding

13. Lowland development
    program
    Target / beneficiaries:

• Producer organizations
  
  
  • Grant, first to acquire pumps and piping and secondly
    for site development
  
  
  
  

Countrywide HIPC funding

14. Project to support the inte-
    gration of young farmers
    Target / beneficiaries:

• Young farmers (18-40 years)
  
  
  • Support projects for young farmers on their own estates
  
  
  • Setting up young farmers in agricultural development
    centers (sites developed by the state)
  
  
  • Support implementing young farmers agricultural project
  
  
  
  

Countrywide HIPC funding

15. Revitalizing the potato
    sector project
    Target / beneficiaries:

• Young farmers (18-40 years)
  
  
  • Production support;
  
  
  • Support for processing and marketing
  
  
  
  

Potato

ecological zone

(West and

North Wes

HIPC funding

16. Agricultural Value Chain
    Development Support
    Program (PADFA)
    Target / beneficiaries:

• Producer Organizations
  
  
  • Increase rice and onion production
  
  
  • Improve the storage, processing and marketing of
    targeted products
  
  
  • Strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of
    rice and onion farmers
  
  
  
  

Far North,

North, West

and North

West

With funding

from IFAD this

project was

scheduled to

start in August

2011

Source: Survey data compiled by the author.

3.3 Specific government actions in support of food chains in Cameroon

A. Developing production and supply of agricultural products

The main actions of the state consisted in:

(i) Establishing and continuing projects and programs to support strategic sectors;

(ii) Signing agreements with domestic and foreign operators for strategic crop intensification;

(iii) Improving product promotion and implementing incentives through the organization of small knowledge

exchange groups and agricultural fairs at regional and national levels;

(iv) Support to modernize production through the development of mechanization;

(v) Rehabilitate national seed farms;

(vi) Following instructions by the Head of State, commit to enact a land reform that ensures land

availability to develop a second generation agriculture.