The nurseries
Donga Mantung has an oil palm nursery, Manyu has two, one per crop. It is the least visible part of these projects and the most decisive: planting material determines what a plot becomes over twenty years.
Sustainability
Supporting rather than replacing
The two most recent expansion projects do not create CDC estates. They support growers farming their own land.
- 20,000hectares planned with smallholders
- 42,027hectares farmed directly
- 2smallholder projects
- 3nurseries on site
What the corporation carries
Opening new areas
The projects extend production beyond the corporation's historic footprint. Donga Mantung is the first outside the Littoral and South West.
Housing the workforce
At Matouke, more than 312 rooms were built, with generator electricity and drinking water from a solar-powered borehole. A new plantation is also a settlement that has to be built.
Oil sold at home
All of the palm oil is sold locally, in one-litre bottles and five- and twenty-litre jugs, and in bulk to Cameroonian industry.
Banana Accompanying Measures
The banana operation draws on the European Union's Banana Accompanying Measures, a scheme set up to help traditional supplier countries adjust as EU import tariffs fell.