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Concerning the institutional challenges, there is a beginning of solution in Cameroon with the “Plan National de Développement des Produits Forestiers Non Ligneux” elaborated Jully 2012. From that Plan, the Minister in charge of forestry took a decsion in 2019 to classify special forest products and NTFPs into 3 categories according to their economic value, the socio cultural importance and ecological durability.
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Yes there are a lot of challenges:
– Technological challenges for the processing or transformation of the products as most of the indigenous exploiting are not aware of their existance . Which explains why Prunus africa is mostly exported (the bark);
– Low implication of business men in the sector due to the lack of material, etc.
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LE MEDICINAL IMPORTANCE OF NTFPs AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE GDP OF CAMEROON
According to some authors, more than 500 plants are used in Cameroon as medicinal plants. Some are even exported and used in the pharmaceutical industry. For example: pygeum (Prunus africana), yohimbe (Pausinystalia yohimbe), moabi (Baillonella toxisperma) and voacanga (Voacanga africana). But their contribution to the GDP is very low. The contribution of the forest sector in the GDP of Cameroon is about 4% on which NTFPs contribute only 0.55% (CIFOR-MINFOF, 2013). Therefore there is a lot to do to enhance the contribution of the NTFPs in Cameroon.
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