Cassava processing plant to be re-launched in Sangmelima.

The ceremony was presided at by the Governor of the South Region, Felix Nguele Nguele.
The cassava processing plant is part of a vast industrialisation project being implemented by the Growth Sectors Network Centre, CRFC, which is a secular arm of the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, MINNEPAT.
According to the Governor, the functional testing of the factory has allowed them to evaluate the quality of the infrastructures of the plant, its production capacity pegged at 120 tons per day, as well as the availability of cultivable and cultivated land of about 150 hectares.
Nguele Nguele assured that Sangmelima cassava cluster project will evolve with some smaller companies integrated into the production chain and create thousands of direct and indirect jobs.
“We have assurances that there will be satellite companies that will specialise in the production of cassava, a raw material for the transformation of cassava flour into food and
industrial starch,” the senior civil administrator said.
According to the CRFC National Coordinator, Simon Yonga Bakalag, there is a ready market available for outputs from the production factory.
“It is a project driven by an innovative economic model whose particularity consists in selling before producing,” he said.
He further mentioned that “within the shortest time possible, we will put in place an institutional and technical restructuring mechanism for the plant. This will then lead us to the production of cassava flour”.
On his part, the Mayor of Sangmelima, Jean Faustin Bekono, pledged to do all within his powers to mobilise the government, private and public partners and the population to see that the objective of the plant is achieved.

Last Friday’s event, which was marked by the distribution of cassava seedlings to some farmer cooperatives in the Dja and Lobo Division, was also attended by Bafakan Roger, Technical Advisor No.3 at MINEPAT, representing the Minister Alamine Ousmane Mey.
Also present were the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts, CCIMA, Eken Christophe; the Senior Divisional Officer of Dja and Lobo, Damien Owono, amongst other personalities.
CRFC is a secular arm of MINEPAT charged with the implementation of the national import substitution policy as announced by the Head of State in his address to the nation on December 31, 2022.
Also, within the framework of the national policy of import substitution, an onion processing plant was opened in Maroua in February 2023. 

Other procession plants are said to be in gestation in other sectors and other regions of the country.