Cameroon project 631-0015 · 1979–1985 · agriculture

Grant is provided to Heifer Project International (HPI) to make improved breeds of livestock and dairy cattle available to small farmers in Cameroon. HPI will implement the project with the National Office of Scientifc and Technical Research (ONAREST). Increasing quantities of improved livestock will be distributed to cooperatives and poor farmers, especially in areas near ONAREST Institute for Animal Research (IZR) stations in Bambui, Wakwa, and Mankon. Ministry of Animal Husbandry staff will distribute to farmers, especially those in the project's training program (cf. below), 355,000 fowl, 3,400 rabbits, 2,200 pigs, 360 cattle, 210 goats, and 110 sheep. Liberal payment mechanisms will be established for farmers. A dairy industry will be initiated from Bambui and Wakwa to produce 4.5 million liters of milk over 5 years for infant care centers and schools. Mankon station poultry will produce 48 million eggs. Eggs and meat will be sold through existing cooperatives. To achieve these goals, the IZR will increase crossbreeding of local cattle with imported high milk-yielding Heifers and Jerseys at Bambui and begin crossbreeding at Wakwa. Hybrids will produce up to five times more m

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAG-777 (1979). The source's own text.