Bananas: CDC stabilizes Cameroonian exports in November 2023, despite the poor performance of BPL (-48.2%)

During the month of November 2023, Cameroon exported 18,433 tonnes of bananas, according to data revealed by the Banana Association of Cameroon (Assobacam). This volume of Cameroonian banana shipments to the international market is almost stable (-141 tonnes, or -0.7%) compared to the 18,574 tonnes exported during the same period in 2022. This stability in the volume of exports year-on-year, the local banana sector owes mainly to the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), a public agro-industrial unit which is gradually recovering from the ravages of the socio-political crisis underway in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon since end of 2016. Indeed, according…