With a daily production potential of 100 tonnes, this infrastructure enables the company to strengthen its presence in the transformed sugar segment. This deployment is part of a desire to better serve households and industrial partners, while adapting to new consumption requirements. By modernizing its production apparatus, Sosucam seeks to consolidate its national base, as other players, such as Wega Food in Douala, also announce expansions of their capacities. The efficiency of this new line becomes the guarantee of future profitability.

The Nkoteng investment comes in a context of persistent imbalance between supply and demand. With national needs estimated at 300,000 tonnes per year, local production currently only covers a fraction of expectations, forcing public authorities to regularly resort to imports. Meanwhile, export or re-export flows to neighboring countries, often more lucrative, increase pressure on available stocks in Cameroon. Mastering these flows by professional players would facilitate better liquidity and price stability for the final consumer.

For the company's leaders, this modernization is also a response to the massive subsidy policies practiced by global giants like Brazil or India. These interventions maintain international prices at low levels, encouraging importers to advocate for increased liberalization of trade. Faced with the risk of deregulation, Sosucam is betting on local industrial anchorage and technical performance. Each industrial brick laid strengthens the sector's resilience to external shocks. Each investment made consolidates the solidity of the national agro-industrial system towards enhanced sugar autonomy.


Ndjomo Carlos

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