Cameroon cocoa exports down 9pc by end Feb -official data

ABIDJAN: Cameroon cocoa bean and product exports reached 209,000 tonnes by the end of February, down 9 percent from the same period last season, official data from regulator ONCC showed on Friday.

Cocoa bean exports were 162,000 tonnes, down 28 percent from the same period last season.

Sole grinder SIC CACAO, owned by Barry Callebaut, ground 47,000 tonnes of beans, up by a third compared with the same period last season.

SIC CACAO increased grinding capacity to 50,000 tonnes from 30,000 tonnes.

Cameroon is world's fifth-biggest cocoa producer and No.3 in Africa behind Ivory Coast and Ghana.