25-year-old Bamenda based engineer invents cocoa pod breaking machine

By Sah Terence Animbom Anyone who has taken part in the slews of meticulous moments of tons of cocoa pod breaking will testify that it is the most difficult and time-taking activity in the cocoa cultivation process. A cocoa pod breaker must ensure the safety of the cocoa bean which must not be wounded, else it is destroyed. Cognizant of all these intricacies in the process, cocoa farmers thus spend wads of cash every farming season in the payment of labourers who very often sustain injuries on their left hands bearing the cocoa pod to be broken as once in…