Why Farmers in rural areas in Cameroon work at the mercery of buyers or middlemen.

Farmers in Cameroon always work at the expense of buyers especially in rural areas due to poor road networks. This has often rendered them poor especially when making a balance sheet at the end of the farming season. The peak of most crops be it cash or food crops is always been marred with inaccessibility as such buyers always offered low prices to the farmers knowing that they can not successfully process or store them.

For food crops, before they often get to the market some are already or almost in the state of spoilage for example, vegetables, tomatoes, plantains, banana etc. This is because during rainy period only four wheeled cars use these roads and passengers often sit on these crops causing them to start getting bad.

In the same vein, cash crops do face similar effects where cost of insecticides when supplied to farmers by buyers in rural areas is always almost double reason linked to the same bad road network. In other countries, farmers live comfortable lives , reason why the Arabica coffee plantations in the north west were cut down while similar thing was done in the south west due poor prices and poor roads as buyers will not want to shoulder much losses thus exploiting the farmers. This problem is not only in Cameroon but equally in most parts of Africa and as such needs to be improved upon as urban populations rely so much on these foods.