Exports of the beans were 750 metric tons, from 1,850 tons a week earlier, the figures showed. The average price increased to 1,682 CFA francs ($3.47) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), from 1,480 a week earlier, according to Bloomberg calculations using rates published by the country’s Cocoa and Coffee Inter- professional Board.
“We are already in the light-crop season,” said John Atanga, communication officer with the Cocoa Development Authority, by phone from Yaounde, the capital.
A kilogram fetched 1,358 francs in the southwest, one of the highest production zones, Abong Abraham, president of Ekona Farmers’ Cooperative, said by phone today. Farmers sold the beans at 1,370 francs in the Littoral area, 1,370 francs in the center region and at 1,350 francs in the south, according to information e-mailed from the Cocoa and Coffee Information Relay Centers in Bafia, Bertoua, Nkongsamba and Ebolowa.
