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Cameroon Coffee

Cameroon Coffee is grown in nutritiously rich volcanic soil situated at higher altitude, with more than enough rainfall is responsible for optimum climatic conditions for growing Cameroon coffee, which is the best coffee and has its own unique features of excellent taste and appealing aroma to the coffee lovers.

Cameroon Coffee has great demand all over the world. Cameroon probably has the most going for it of any country in the world. To maintain the camroon coffee standards the founder farmers have formed a Farmers Cooperative body, which puts in consolidated efforts to improve upon the quality of Cameroon Coffee and build an infrastructure necessary for its marketability superiority. It is ideal utilization of great environment, fertile soil and presence of good labour to make the program a success.

Most of Cameroon’s coffee is robusta variety, which is grown every where except in the north. The Arabica variety is grown in high altitude locations spread in west, northwest and east. The western highlands of Cameroon are located at a height of 5000 ft above sea level, where most of coffee is grown.

Farms and Processing:

Family head holds the authority in extended families in the region. On an average there are only seventy families and each family has farm holding of nearly 3 to 4 hectares.

Farmers having small holding are engaged in multi crop growing activities and normally grow Arabic variety. The land has volcanic soil suitable for growing a number of crops instead of just one crop.

Climatic Virtues:

By virtue of mild climatic conditions of the region coupled with strenuously working population of the area, has recorded tremendous results in agricultural production. Social togetherness is highly depicted in the population as a result of which there are very dynamic groups and association. So as to have their sustenance easy and making food available to their families, other crops are grown in between coffee plantations.

Coffee plantations grow with other crops and hence they are saved of fungus or pests infestation, since they are not very near to each other. The fungus and pest infest the plants if they are closely near to each other. The height of coffee plantation trees, which are about 10 feet tall, also helps in preventing spread of fungus disease and pests.

Concept of Organic farming:

The coffee plantations are organically grown in the area using natural manure and no pesticides and insecticides. The weeds, which grow in the field are manually removed and hence is free from harms of chemical substances used to destroy weeds and pesticides. The coffee production per hectare is 200 kg.

Processing of Cameroon Coffee:

Ripe berries are plucked and collected from the trees hand and put in water drums, the deformed berries get removed. Coffee is instantaneously de-pulped by use of small hand operated de-pulper.　

The de-pulped berries remain in fermentation tanks for 2 days. They are washed for second time. The berries, which could not be stripped of the pulp, are segregated.

Sun Drying of Cameroon Coffee:

After above processing the de-pulped berries are spread on woven mats and exposed to Sun for drying till humidity is between 12% to 14%. After the coffee is dry, it is sent for milling where the export processing and bagging takes place.