Persistent heavy rain in perishable foodstuff main production areas of the North West, South and West Regions is causing enormous losses to traders in some markets in Douala. A good quantity of leafy vegetables like green spices, huckleberry, cabbage and foodstuff including Irish potato, cassava tubers and cocoyam, rot before arriving market.
The famous Sandaga Market in Douala, known for selling fresh foodstuff, today has piles of rotten vegetables due to the persistent rains. Though traders in fresh foodstuff incur enormous losses, business must keep going. Most traders count losses in FCFA tens of thousands weekly. Ndonfack Clementine, a trader in the Sandaga Market said enormous losses are recorded especially when food items are harvested during rainfall.
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