Priority Value Chain

🥬 Market Gardening

Commercial Vegetable Production & Urban Supply

Structure my market garden production
12
plateformes
market garden farms structured by XP-NOVA
450
producteurs
market gardeners in the support programme
−38%
reduced losses
on batches with packaging system

Value chain overview

Peri-urban market gardening supplies Cameroon's major cities but suffers from low yields, high post-harvest losses and limited access to institutional markets. XP-NOVA professionalises market gardening groups.

Yaoundé and Douala have over 5 million inhabitants with strongly growing demand for fresh vegetables. Hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and canteens seek reliable suppliers with traceability and regularity.

Potential & Key Figures

5 M+
urban consumers

to supply in Yaoundé and Douala

30–45%
post-harvest losses

reducible to less than 10% with appropriate infrastructure

HRI
institutional market

hotels, restaurants, institutions — prices 40% above the wholesale market

Production Zones

  • Yaoundé market-garden belt (Nkolondom, Etoug-Ebe)
  • Douala Great Marshes (Logpom, Ndogpassi)
  • Western Highlands (temperate vegetables)
  • Adamaoua (onions, potatoes)

XP-NOVA services for this value chain

  • ✓ Opportunity studies and business plans for market garden platforms
  • ✓ Design of adaptive irrigation systems (solar drip)
  • ✓ Training in GAP for market gardens and integrated pest management (IPM)
  • ✓ Access to the HRI market (Hotels, Restaurants, Institutions)
  • ✓ Setting up collection and conditioning centres
  • ✓ Contractualisation systems with institutional buyers

Certifications & Standards

GlobalG.A.P.Agri-food safetyGAP certifiedTraceability system