The Swine Industry in Cameroon: Current Status, Challenges, and Outlook

This study, conducted with support from the PCP ACEFA program between January and August 2023, provides a comprehensive assessment of the pork sector in Cameroon. Interviews were conducted with various stakeholders in the sector (producers, input suppliers, intermediaries, traders, transporters, butchers, grill operators, processors, importers, and consumers), followed by an analysis of the collected data. The report concludes that the pork sector in Cameroon, although strategic and promising, remains poorly structured. It makes short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations: professional organization of stakeholders into associations, strengthening of management capacities, combating corruption and poor-quality inputs, support for farms affected by African swine fever (ASF), development of research on feed and vaccination, and modernization of processing and marketing to penetrate foreign markets.