The Sector is headed by
the Managing Director at the main office in Tiko and has a Project
Manager, Project Engineer and Farm Managers controlling each
Farm House.
All the plantations are
fully irrigated during the dry period of the year. Fruit from
the fields are moved to the packing stations on cable-way which
is a technology unique to the CDC among the banana producing
companies in Cameroon.
Banana Being Moved on Cableway
at packing Station
The Plantation
Statistics are as follows:
PROJECT
Mature
Immature
Total
Ekona
190
-
190
Tiko
2,967
48
3,015
Total
3,157
48
3,202
There are
13 packing stations with an average daily production capacity
of 500 tons of bananas. The Statistics of Production in Tons is
as follows:
YEAR
EKONA
TIKO
TOTAL
2003
6,144
116,508
112,652
2004
6,636
118,961
113,591
ESTIMATE OCT-DEC 05
2,093
35,123
37,216
Ripe CDC/Del Monte Exported
Banana Ready for Consumption
The
Banana sector is being managed in partnership with a foreign partner,
Del Monte at Tiko and exclusively by CDC at Ekona. The mission
is to grow and market Banana as an export produce. There are two
main plantations at Ekona and Tiko.
Banana Plantation at Tiko
Ekona plantation
is located at Molyko in Buea sub-division and is the smaller of
the two with only 190 hectares. Its management as at today is
directly by CDC and the fruit is sold to Del Monte. Tiko plantation
is managed by the CDC/Del Monte partnership. This partnership
started in 1987 and has successfully operated up to today. In
this partnership, Delmonte provides the Technical Services, Marketing
facilities and Finances while CDC provides Suitable Land, Manpower
and Local logistics. Delmonte pays CDC cost plus a fixed margin
per box of banana exported.
All the plantations
are fully irrigated during the dry period of the year. Fruit from
the fields are moved to the packing stations on cable-way which
is a technology unique to the CDC among the banana producing companies
in Cameroon.
A
fully mature harvested Banana Bunch ready for Processing
at one of the Packing Stations
Johnson NDUMBE
