Abstract
Despite significant financial and technical resources mobilized by the State through financial institutions, local development has not followed the investment curve and the peasantry is still drowned in underdevelopment. In the 1960s, the State of Cameroon launched the five-year development plan where, one of the major components is the development of structuring projects keeping in mind the construction of agro-industrial complexes to serve as models for small farms placed under their supervision. Therefore, specialized development companies (SODES) such as SODERIM, UGICAES and UGIRILCOPAM were created and received 1,200,000,000FCFA, 20,000,000FCFA and 177,000,000FCFA respectively and 5,200,000FCFA grants each per year. However, it is difficult nowadays to appreciate the input of this funding into local development. This study aims at evaluating the contribution of agricultural project financing to local development and its sustainability in the Mbo plain. We used empirical observation based on semi-directive interviews with the managers of SODERIM, UGICAES and UGIRILCOPAM firms (former employees), and questionnaire administration to peasants and agricultural extension agents as well as the exploitation of secondary data collected from the Sub-Divisional Delegation of Agriculture, registers of these firms, and field observation. Results show that SODERIM, UGICAES and UGIRILCOPAM did not foster the development of the Mbo plain and all went bankrupt when funding stopped since they were unable to self-finance. The determinants of these local agricultural firms failure were both external and internal. The infrastructural, political and socio-economic aspects have remained dormant. Thus, financing has not stimulated a new peasant dynamic in an autonomous framework.
Highlights
Since independence, have the rural financing policies tested in Cameroon made it possible to build real localThe rural world, despite urban growth, accounts for about development? Financing policies meant to foster rural three-quarter of the population
The main research question is how can we understand In these countries, many rural financing policies and and explain the failure of agricultural firms; Soderim, Ugicaes institutions have been tested since the colonial period, resulting and Ugirilcopam in Cameroon? From this main question, the to the mobilization of a diverse range of actors since the 1990s. sub research questions are 1- What are the internal
Ediamam Epalle Guy Marcel and Usongo Patience Ajonina: Determinants of Failures of Local Agricultural Firms in Cameroon: The Case of Soderim, Ugicaes and Ugirilcopam in the Mbo Plain (Cameroon) determinants of the failure of Soderim, Ugicaes and Ugirilcopam in Cameroon? 2- What are the external determinants of the failure of Soderim, Ugicaes and Ugirilcopam in Cameroon? What are the consequences of this failure on the local area ? The objective of this study is to assess the determinants of the failure of agricultural project financing to local development
Summary
Financing policies meant to foster rural three-quarter of the population It generates 70-80% of development, have not had the expected results or the results employment, 40-60% of GNP, 80-90% of food supply, 80-90% are mitigated for the less we can say. From the dawn of financing of peasant organizations or public agro-industrial independence, agricultural and rural financing is generally in companies, it is difficult to identify on the field, the this part of the world, an important component of the achievements of the said financing. The main research question is how can we understand In these countries, many rural financing policies and and explain the failure of agricultural firms; Soderim, Ugicaes institutions have been tested since the colonial period, resulting and Ugirilcopam in Cameroon? From this main question, the to the mobilization of a diverse range of actors since the 1990s. sub research questions are 1- What are the internal
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