Agro-industries in the country still spend huge amounts of money to import raw materials like maize, cassava and sorghum for production. In order to produce both quality and sufficient quantity of such raw materials to reduce imports, the Cameroon government and the World Bank came up with the Agricultural Investment and Market Development Project, PIDMA. The project is to work closely with cooperatives to produce sufficient and quality cassava, maize and sorghum for agro-industries.
Beginning in 2013, PIDMA has gone operational in the Littoral Region with the objective to transform agriculture from subsistence and low-yielding for maize and cassava sub-sectors to a market-oriented with competitive value chains. The programme will provide financial and technical support to production, processing and marketing of agricultural products, support seed production and carry out project coordination and management in cooperatives.
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