NES Cameroon at the Youth Agro-pastoral Entrepreneurship Summit in Cameroon

Dec 11, 2019

To reduce Cameroon’s dependency on importing large quantity of food to feed its growing population, the country is counting on its youth who make up more than half of its population.

“Be the agricultural entrepreneurs Cameroon need,” said President Paul Biya in his 2016 national youth day speech to young people.

The country’s vision 2035 development plan counts on intensive agricultural productivity to catapult the country’s greatness and young people are part of it. This explains why in January 2017, the government launched the special youth triennial plan focusing on entrepreneurship for development. Continue reading