Determinants of Coffee Production in Melong Coffee Zone, Cameroon

Abstract

This study determinant of Coffee Production in Melong Coffee Zone, Cameroon has made use of the Cobb Douglas production function via primary data collected among 120 coffee farmers. The result shows that, farmers’ income level, years of experience, access to credit, fertilizer application, farm size and farmers training principal determinants of coffee production in Melong Coffee zone. Other problems observed constraining coffee farmers include: climate, transportation cost, land tenure system, method used in dried coffee, price per kg, farmer’s cooperatives, cost of chemicals and farming equipment. Policy should focus on the amelioration of economic and environmental variables as they are observed to be very vital in coffee production.

Keywords

• coffee
• farmers
• production
• melong
• zone