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Making Cassava, potato and plantain flour
- Production,
- Local consumption techniques and testimonies


02/05/13
Focus
Making flour from Cassava, potato and plantains
Production, local consumption techniques and testimonies
la suite
02 May 2013
How to make quality sweet potato chips, flour
Sweet potato is drought resistant, hardy and can grow in marginal areas thus contributing in improving food security.
la suite
02 May 2013
Making high-quality cassava flour
High-quality cassava flour is made within a day of harvesting the root.
la suite
02 May 2013
Uses of sweet potato flour
Sweet potato flour can easily be promoted as a substitute for wheat flour in sweet baked products.
la suite
02 May 2013
Processing food crops, local initiative sets the pace in Ndian
A local initiative called PALOGs PLC has challenged the long standing notion that only exportable cash crops can enable farmers to make a living.
la suite
02 May 2013
“It’s time we start using our raw materials to produce flour”
Which are the crops you use to get these products ?
la suite
02 May 2013
Smallholder Rubber production
Simple production techniques, Huge income source and accessible markets
la suite
18 Mar 2013
Producing Rubber plants
Research has developed more productive clones (varieties) that can be multiplied on a large scale.
la suite
18 Mar 2013
Preparing the plantation to plant rubber
The soils must be deep, well-drained and site preparation must be meticulous.
la suite
18 Mar 2013
Rubber taping techniques
Tapping means to make a cut in the bark of the rubber tree then harvest the latex.
la suite
18 Mar 2013
Small holder problems, possible solutions
Rubber small holding plantations in Cameroon has numerous problems that have negative consequences on yields.
la suite
18 Mar 2013
“A rubber taper can be paid 100000 francs”,
What’s your experience with rubber ?
la suite
18 Mar 2013
“European markets are lacking rubber”,
What are the main products of rubber?
la suite
18 Mar 2013
Beans - A healthy food, an income source
Production, disease management, harvesting and storage
la suite
24 Jan 2013
Production, disease management, harvesting and storage of Beans
Beans contain proteins, iron, and zinc; in short, beans is often considered as the meat for the poor.
la suite
24 Jan 2013
How to identify and manage insect attacks in Beans
Insects are the most destructive pests to crops. We see insects and can identify them because of their six legs and other characteristics.
la suite
24 Jan 2013
Post Harvest Management of Beans
Tips on harvesting
la suite
24 Jan 2013
The nutritive contents of beans and your health
Beans is an indispensable source of proteins, other nutrients for low income homes.
la suite
24 Jan 2013
Beans seed farmers trained to boost production
Some beans seed farmers from 25 groups in the South West Region have received training and seeds to boost beans production.
la suite
24 Jan 2013
“Because of storage problems we lose a lot of beans to pests”,
Makaka Catherine, Zonal extention worker/Beans farmer Soppo, Buea
la suite
24 Jan 2013
End-of-year feasts,Make profit with chicken
Production techniques, feed formulation and maximizing profit
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Technical slip on chicken production
Introduction
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Techniques of feed formulation
Explanation
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Disease prevention and control
Preventive health
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Answers to questions farmers ask about fowls
Where and how should the poultry house be?
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Marketing end-of-year feast chicken
Timing and prospecting the market before stocking chicken in your farm is very necessary.
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Succeeding in the slaughter house business in Cameroon
Having observed the poultry slaughter channels that exist in Cameroon, ...
la suite
06 Nov 2012
“To feed 400 chicks to maturity I need 500000 FCFA”,
Where do you pass the command for the chicks and at what cost?
la suite
06 Nov 2012
Biogas : Renewable energy for sustainable agriculture
The introduction of biogas in Cameroon since 2008 has been a welcome relief in the area of smart agriculture and renewable energy...
la suite
03 Nov 2012
“I really wanted to reduce stress,”
“I really wanted to reduce stress,”
la suite
03 Nov 2012
“We use slurry alone to fertilize two hectares of land,”
“We use slurry alone to fertilize two hectares of land,” ...
la suite
03 Nov 2012
How to make biogas
Biogas is made by fermenting organic waste in a biogas digester. The size of a digester can vary from a small household system...
la suite
03 Nov 2012
Pig farmers incur huge losses to African swine fever
African swine fever has left many farmers weeping in the South West Region as well as in many parts of Cameroon...
la suite
03 Nov 2012
Palm Kernel oil, Extraction, uses and marketing
The oil palm is a plant with multiple uses. Just nothing from this tree is lost or wasted on this tree. ..
la suite
01 Nov 2012
Palm kernels are highly valued by oil industries
The business in palm kernels is little known but a profitable one. The lack of kernels is limiting the capacities of oil mills to expand their production of palm kernel oil...
la suite
01 Nov 2012
Palm kernel oil Production is profitable but...

The extraction of palm kernel oil is a profitable business. Especially since not just the oil is valued the palm kernel cake also sells well.

la suite
01 Nov 2012
Palm kernel oil neglected in South West
Palm kernel oil costs more than palm oil in the South West but few farmers are into its production.
la suite
01 Nov 2012
Pepper : Production, processing, marketing
Pepper, like most food crops is a seasonal crop in Cameroon so much so that at one time, ...
la suite
29 Oct 2012
Pepper production techniques
Land preparation
la suite
29 Oct 2012
Processing, packaging and storage.
Pepper is highly perishable and transformation if grown in large quantities is inevitable if it cannot be ....
la suite
29 Oct 2012
Some processing methods
Pepper processing is carried out in three different ways, depending on the commercial ...
la suite
29 Oct 2012
“Necessity is the mother of invention,”
In what forms do you process your pepper ?
la suite
29 Oct 2012
“I like the Nigerian market; I will not spend much on shipping,”
You transform this pepper into which products ?
la suite
29 Oct 2012
“I invested 700000 francs, gained 3 million,”
Donnala Dou Dou Sirano, commercial pepper farmer, Buea...
la suite
29 Oct 2012
How to succeed in your agro-enterprise

- Advantages of agro-enterprises
- Entrepreneurs testify

la suite
21 Apr 2012
How to get a legal status for your enterprise
Social economy enterprises : Social economy enterprises include CIG, Economic interest groups and Cooperatives.
la suite
21 Apr 2012
Procedure to succeed in an agro-enterprise
Below are some measures that can help you succeed in your agro-enterprise
la suite
21 Apr 2012
Centres to facilitate enterprise management created
Most business persons in Cameroon complain of management problems and harassment from taxation.

la suite
21 Apr 2012
Centres to facilitate enterprise management created
Most business persons in Cameroon complain of management problems and harassment from taxation.
la suite
21 Apr 2012
Formalities for exporting agro products

Formalities for exporting agro products

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21 Apr 2012
 
  Letters
Varieties of pepper produced in Cameroon
Performance of pepper per hectare according to the reality in Cameroon.
03/05/13
I Highlights of an effective business plan
I shall be grateful if you give us a model business plan for the establishment of cassava transformation and processing food craft marketing both oversea and in Africa; especially...
03/05/13
  Development News
Agric schools to train entrepreneurs
The eighteen institutions of agriculture in Cameroon will henceforth train agricultural entrepreneurs, a shift from the 1980 reforms where trainees were recruited for the civil service
03/05/13
Prices of inputs still headache for farmers
Mini agro pastoral shows in the North West Region show that though farmers still practice subsistent agriculture, they have the practical knowhow to produce but are held back by cost of inputs.
03/05/13
Farmers confront minister over rejection of Cameroon’s cocoa
Cocoa farmers in the South West have told the Minister of Agriculture, Essimi Menye, that the 2013 cocoa season is too bleak for them and the government.
03/05/13
Insignificant Minister’s prizes embarrasse farmers
The minister’s prize of excellence to the best pig farmer and the best cocoa farmer in the South West embarrassed many farmers.
03/05/13
Farmers regret “mournful” Ndian roads
“The relief that came with rumors of tarring the Kumba-Mundemba road has given way to frustration, look at the road in December”, Ekule, remarked.
03/05/13
Researchers want preventive measures against plantain disease
Some researchers and farmers have warned of a spreading banana/plantain disease.
03/05/13
Man at centre of climate change
Some thirty journalists drawn from private and public media have been told to put man at the centre of climate change reporting.
03/05/13
  Health
North West food, a health risk ?
North West foods are a health risk due to the preparation, conservation and handling techniques, a study has shown.
03/05/13
 

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