Priority Value Chain

🌴 Vegetable Oils

Oil Palm, Groundnut, Soybean and Tropical Oilseeds

Valorize my oil crops
8
oil presses
semi-industrial units commissioned
1 200 t/an
huile produite
in units supported by XP-NOVA
28%
added value
additional for RSPO-certified oils

Value chain overview

Cameroon is one of the main palm oil producers in Central Africa. Regional demand exceeds supply, and the quality vegetable oil market (artisanal red palm oil, pure groundnut oil) offers significant premium opportunities.

The palm oil value chain is strategic but polarised between large industrial groups (SOCAPALM, CDC) and millions of smallholder producers with no structuring or market access. XP-NOVA works on structuring the artisanal and semi-industrial segment.

Potential & Key Figures

300 000 t/an
palm oil

national production of which 60% by smallholders

×3
premium price

artisanal organic red palm oil vs conventional

Export CEMAC
regional market

vegetable oil deficit throughout Central Africa

Production Zones

  • Littoral (Mungo, Nkam — oil palm)
  • South-West (CDC, smallholders)
  • Centre & South (wild oil palm nuts)
  • Far North (groundnut, sesame)

XP-NOVA services for this value chain

  • ✓ Feasibility studies for semi-industrial oil presses
  • ✓ Structuring GICs of oil palm nut producers
  • ✓ Plantation and palm grove rehabilitation plans
  • ✓ Sustainable palm oil certification (RSPO smallholders)
  • ✓ Setting up quality artisanal units (premium red palm oil)
  • ✓ Access to CEMAC regional markets and export

Certifications & Standards

RSPO SmallholdersEU Organic (organic palm oil)ANOR qualité huileHalal export