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Edea National Pilot Centre: Eighteen present projects to transform agric products.
Edea National Pilot Centre: Eighteen present projects to transform agric products.
Some 18 young entrepreneurs have been injected into the business community. The young men and women, upon graduation from the Edea National Pilot Enterprises Nursery, have presented projects to transform cassava into flour, cocoa into chocolate and wild forests into farmlands.
Their injection into the business world has been described as timely, given the relative challenges faced with the importation and exportation of goods. Baking flour is among the goods Cameroon continues to import, despite the country’s huge cereal production capacity. During the Douala International Business Forum, rice was highlighted as one of the major products whose production can be promoted to cut down on importation. Chocolate is yet another highly consumed delicacy, made of coffee and cocoa, abundantly produced in Cameroon.
These numerous opportunities prompted the Minister of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Handicraft and Social Economy, Achille Basselikin III, to challenge the young graduates in this light. He said the newly trained entrepreneurs need to take advantage of the abundance of input resources, while bringing the required standard practices into the sector. “These young men and women have been trained with new skills and we are convinced, from the variety of domains; like in the areas of transforming agricultural goods and the development of the textile sector, they all have a business plan that can enable them to go to investors and raise money to ensure that their businesses can grow”, Minister Basselikin said. He added that the training is in line with the social orientation given by the Head of State, President Paul Biya, for more attention to be paid in the agribusiness sector.
Revolutionising Agriculture
It is worth recalling that the 18 entrepreneurs are the first batch of the National Pilot Centre set up in 2019.
The centre seeks to boost development in the grass roots, by building capacities of individuals who are expected to return and make good use of the input resources available in their different communities.
Some 100 entrepreneurs initially expressed their interest to get trained, but it turned out that only 18 finally completed the training. At conception, officials said the centre will nurture SMEs and also link them up to funding partners. They also chose the Edea town to host it as it is some form of a road junction between two major cities; Douala and Kribi.
During the launching in 2019, the SMEs Minister said; “The government will not relent in taking into consideration any recommendation from the Edea National Pilot Business Nursery for the betterment of the entrepreneurship ecosystem”. This communicated the desire to seek ways of improving the centre as years unfold.