(Ecofin Agency) - During the 2015-2016 cocoa season, officially launched on 7 August 2015, the Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Council (CICC) will make available to producers of the Centre and South-West regions, about ten post-harvest treatment centres of excellence for cocoa, we learn from authorised sources.

These are, as explained at CICC, units comprised of two fermentors and two dryers, all placed under sheds built with a metallic structure. Each fermentor will have a capacity of 1,050 kg (three trays of 350 kg each), against 500 kg for each dryer. According to our sources, the first centre will be commissioned in September 2015.

Thanks to this equipment, the cocoa-coffee inter-professional organisation hopes to improve the quality of the cocoa produced in Cameroon, especially since, we learn, these "post-harvest treatment centres of excellence will produce high grade cocoa, which fermentation is homogeneous with a controlled drying". It can be recalled that, during the previous season, 97% of exported beans were of grade 2.