North West : Fertilizer, Pesticides To Revamp Coffee Sector

All 13 coffee cooperative Unions in the North West region on May 2, 2020 received over 1,000 bags of fertilizers, pesticides, coffee pulpers and highly specialized coffee picking tables to give the coffee sector a fresh push. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, is to thank for the offer which inspires hope for farmers involved in Arabica and Robusta coffee production.
Delivering the farm inputs in Bamenda, the General Manager of the NWCA, Timothy Waindim stressed that the inputs, pulpers and picking tables were funded by the 2019 public investment budget. It emerged from the event that the inputs are a special offer by the government to support the NWCA revamp the coffee sector and enhance the living standards of farmers. On behalf of the NWCA Board of Directors, the President of the Oku Coffee Cooperative Union, Kentum Peter hailed the government's gesture and appealed for the implementation of the restructuring process of NWCA to be fast tracked. NWCA has for about ten years kept the coffees sector alive without any major assistance.
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