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• TITLE: Impacts of Competitive Choice Methods on Cocoa Yields in Cameroon

  AUTHORS: Ze Engamba Herve, Guiyu Zhao

  KEYWORDS: Cultural Approaches, Cocoa Farming, Agricultural Yield, Competitiveness, Cameroon

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.6 No.11, November 9, 2018

  ABSTRACT: In Cameroon, cocoa is the first export product after oil. It represents about 25% of the total value of the country’s exports. It is grown in 7 of Cameroon’s 10 regions and covers an area of about 400,000 hectares. It involves about 600,000 producers and nearly 8 million people live directly or indirectly from the cocoa economy. Increasing cocoa production and meeting quality standards are among the goals set by the government to improve this economic growth, in order to raise the low purchasing power of the rural population through a strong and sustainable economy. The basis of this paper was therefore to evaluate the impact of two cultural approaches taken individually or mixed on the agricultural yield in Cameroon in the cocoa sector in the period 2000-2016. The estimation of time-series data from a two-sided system by the ordinary least squares method allowed us to obtain significantly positive results from the impact of different farming approaches on agricultural yield in Cameroon. The different approaches mentioned here reveal a real problem of choice in terms of agricultural policy in Cameroon. Public authorities should opt for a mixed approach for profitable and sustainable cocoa farming.