Cameroon: Palm Production - High Producing Oil Mill Soon in South West

The Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT), through the Director General of Planning and Regional Development, Oum Eloma Janvier, was in Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon, Ltd SG SOC, last week for a three-day working visit to the South West Region. The objectives revolved on what is going on in the field concerning SG SOC activities and difficulties encountered. While hailing what the new management of SG SOC is doing in the field in terms of job creation, employment of youths and increasing productivity, the Director General reiterated Government's appreciation with initiative of the management of SG SOC to improve on the living conditions of the people of the communities concerned. Upon their arrival, the new Director of SG SOC, Chief Dr. Blessed Okole, took the Director General and his entourage to their plantations and nurseries in Nguti, Talangaye, Fabe and Lapanja1 where they have over 500,000 seedlings in pre-nurseries and 90,798 were transplanted between April and May, 2015.

The Director General also visited and encouraged some small holders' palm plantations in Ediango and Nguti. Farmers explained that they have received aid from SG SOC through farm inputs. They have been advised and encouraged to create cooperatives and two have already been created namely Golden Palms Cooperative Society Ltd and Standard Palms Cooperative Society Ltd. The Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon Ltd was established in September 2009, with mission to address the complex issues of global food security through the development of a sustainable and commercially viable agricultural initiative in Cameroon. It establishes a sustainable and commercially viable agricultural enterprise, provides training and employment opportunities and contributes to the development of the economy by improving the livelihoods of local communities.

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