Local grinders only bought 24,855 tonnes of cocoa up to late January 2015 which is six months into the 2014-2015 cocoa season.

According to the ONCC, this represents a 17% decline in grinding relative to the same period in the previous year.

Meanwhile, 146,893 tonnes of cocoa have been exported. So far, Cameroon has processed only 12.5% of the 171,748 tonnes of cocoa theoretically produced in late January 2015, excluding stored produce for which statistics are currently unknown.