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Cocoa grinders buy less beans

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.

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