Cameroon aims to increase its rubber production by more than 6,500 tons in 2022. According to the steering committee of the Oil Palm and Rubber Development Project, implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( Minader), this will be achieved through smallholders.

As part of the Minader Project, Cameroon hopes to increase its production of raw rubber by the year 2022. Concretely, national production should increase by 6,667 tons from 2022. This increase will be done through various supports in favor of smallholders, but above all the rehabilitation and regeneration of existing plantations, with a view to increasing yields per hectare. The increase in production projected in 2022 will further strengthen the improvement announced in this sector in 2021 by the Bank of Central African States (Beac), after a gloomy 2020, marked in particular by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This increase in production will lead to an increase in income for producers, given the upward trend in prices for this cash crop observed since 2020 on the international market.