Yaounde - Cameroon's cocoa grinders bought only 1 946 tons of cocoa beans in August, the first month of the 2014/2015 season, down from 2 562 tons last year, the National Cocoa and Coffee Board said on Wednesday.
Only Sic-Cacaos, a subsidiary of Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut, bought beans in August.
The country's only other grinder is Chocolaterie Confiserie du Cameroun, an affiliate of South Africa's Tiger Brands.
Sic-Cacaos processes raw cocoa beans into cocoa powder, cocoa cake and cocoa liquor. The products are sold in the six-nation Cemac bloc, which also includes Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Chococam sells its products only in Cameroon.