It all began on April 16 when the first seedling was planted by Chief Lenya Joseph Fete of Boa Balondo Village followed by Chef Etina Monono on behalf of the General Manager, the Plan and Development Director, Henry Becke, the Project coordinator, Dou’a Raymond and other top officials of the Corporation.
The Corporation intends to plant some 6,000 hectares of palms in Boa covering a period of five years.
Management intends to plant some 1000 hectares this year of which 670 percent will be around Boa Balondo Village in the Project area while 100 hectares each will be planted at Dikome, Bonjari and Mbongo.
The Cameroon Development Corporation is an Agro-Industrial Complex that grows, processes and markets tropical export crops.
It operates in Cameroon in the Central African sub-region.
It is a parastatal company and it's operations management is directed by a General Manager and governed by a Board of Directors also headed by a Chairman.
Currently, its plantations cover a total of approximately 41,000 Hectares of land, 38,000 Hectares of which is mature and of production stage. The corporation constitutes a workforce of over 15,700 employees, including temporal workers, making it the second highest employer after the state of Cameroon.
Three standard grades of semi-finished rubber (sheet, latex crumb, field crumb ) are produced
from 17,000 Ha of rubber estates. The annual production of 22,000 tons is marketed abroad.
15,000 metric tons of cholesterol free red palm oil, rich in vitamin E, is produced annually
from 12,000 Ha of palms plantation and marketed mostly localy.
Palm
kernel is extracted from the nuts of processed palm fruit.
3,455 metric tons is produced annually and sold locally for the manufacture of soap and cosmetics.