Towards food self-sufficiency:

SW farmers drilled on beans production

By Boris Esono in Buea

SW Regional Delegate of CEAC

Some 31 farmers groups in the SWR has been drilled on effective techniques in cultivating deans for high yield production. The one day workshop which took place on Tuesday October 4, 2016 in Buea was an initiative of the SW Regional Delegation of Scientific Research and the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development IRAD, Ekona.

                The cultivation of beans in the SW is not in full gear that is why such a workshop was organized. According to the Regional Delegate of CEAC, Dr. Anne Sama most of the beans found in Cameroon is imported and the ones which are cultivated in the SW is mostly for subsistence. “We cannot find it in the market and we have all what it takes to cultivate beans” she added. She went further to encouraged farmers to adopt these new varieties as they are disease resistant and high yielding.

                During the workshop, farmers were exposed to different techniques in beans production, nutritional and agronomic values. On her part, Madam Sirri Bella, a facilitator from IRAD says common beans is highly consumed, people eat beans with so many food crop and so if people keep buying these common beans from the western highland, there will be problems as the cost in the market is very high. “if people in the SW start growing these common beans, the market price will reduce exponentially.

The workshop ended with a free distribution of high yield beans and manure to farmers.