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Benethea Organic Farming Cooperative at Eleh (BOFCOE)


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Origins of Benethea

Benethea Organic Farming Cooperative at Eleh (BOFCOE) commonly refered to as Benethea is an autonomous association of local farmers in the North West Region of Cameroon united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled business.

Benethea originates from the given...

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Benedicta Young

Benedicta Neng Mukala Young was a life force and a strong breed, a Senior Mid Wife Emeritus by profession and the blood that coursed in her veins drove her to venture into the uncharted territories of women empowerment, of social activism and political engagement. Through her uncommon courage and temerity she embraced her faith, confronted even the ...


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DOROTHEA ANBAINBUE

Dorothea is Innovator and financier of this project and an Architect by profession.

As a descendant of an industrious agriculture family in Muenster Germany during the 20th century, she is committed not only to ensuring a successful project but in realising an interesting cross cultural and global socio-economic experience ...



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Our Objectives


Since agricultural performance and profitability are closely linked to the well-being of skilled and unskilled farmers within a rural community, Benethea strives to do the following:


  • Creat a forum that will improve on the social capital of farmers.
  • Alleviate poverty by diversifying production and incomes through agroforestry practices.
  • Satisfy the socio-economic and cultural needs of the farmers while conserving the natural resource base.
  • Incorporating agroforestry as a low cost technology to enhance productivity of farms without degrading the environment
  • Ensuring and possibly creating employment

This project is going to mitigate the poor social conditions and poverty that has been hindering the inhabitants from delivering their inputs and exercising their skills.

Milestone


April 2016, Peter Bruce Anbainbu and Dorothea Anbainbue from Weissenthurm, Germany acquired 47 hectares of land at Eleh, Mbueni somewhere in the North West Region of Cameroon.
The area is made up of forest at the fringes and flat savanah including natural boundaries hemmed in by two rivers on the lengths and forests on the width limits.



  • August 2016, Nursing of cocoa seeds
  • May 2016, Signing of the conveyance deed and payments in Benedicta's House.







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Our values at BOFCOE

Efficient organic production of safe, high quality agricultural products, in a way that protects and improve;

  • the natural environment,
  • the social and economic conditions of farmers and community,
  • safeguards the health and welfare of all farmed species.

our products at bofcoe

Cocoa will be intercropped with maize for the first three years in a rainfed cocoa production cycle. This is to ensure that there is consistency in the supply of maize for local and national consumption while waiting for the cocoa farm to become established.

The paved Bambui-Fundong road passes through densely populated villages with a very high demand for maize which is the staple food in the region. As for the cash crop, middlemen like OLAM Cameroon are in a constant need of cocoa produce.

Note: One of the most suitable crop to have been intercropped in the Cocoa farm would have been plantains. But because it is quite a distance from the farm to the nearest possible motorable road, the transportation of the ready plantains after harvest would be problematic and inconvenient for individuals to carry due to their heavy masses. Reason why maize has been selected because after harvest, it would be dried in a farm house that is going to be constructed in due course. Hence, the transportation to motorable road is going to be less problematic.

Project Preparation, Phase I

Due to financial constraints hindering the Cooperative from purchasing modern farming equipments such tractors, the Benethea Project would solely rely on man-power i.e. manual work.





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