Kuh Emmanuel Loah’s plantations in Boyo division inspire hope for youths who want to try a hand in agriculture.

Agriculture pays and the experience of a young lad from , Boyo division inspires hope for those thirsty for a career in the sector. In effect, 44 year old, Kuh Emmanuel Loah’s coffee farm and plantations in the neighbourhood of Ninikejem, Belo  Sub Division is all about the young man who emerges as a  success story in agriculture.

Kuh Emmanuel has a 23 year-old experience to show in intensive farming for subsistence and business. He is not a Civil servant and sounds off about his 3.5 hectares of coffee farms and plantations that keep his family away from misery. It is easy to understand why he  sounds off about agriculture with a family of four biological children and some 15 other  family relations who directly depend on him for livelihood, education and health care.

His plantations are  a source of hope  with enough plantains, fruit trees, medicinal plants and enough coffee produce for customers who include organized cooperative societies and licensed buying agents. What has grown to become his prosperity estate is traced back to 1993 when, with a negligible cfa 300, Kuh Emmanuel bought ten grams of cabbage seed to start a vegetable and tree nursery. Today,  the farms and Resource Center do not only offer food for the hungry, but has trained or shared knowledge to some 10.000 farmers.

Kuh Emmanuel is a believer that the future of his entire family is summed up in agriculture because it pays. He told Cameroon Tribune that speed brakes include the marginalization of small holder farmers who suffer without State subventions. He regrets that 2^nd generation agriculture which is practiced by a few farmers gets most of the attention from the government.

He also believes that the burden of feeding Cameroonians hangs mostly on the marginalized small holder farmers, yet, the government’s policy is designed to support  mostly  Common Initiative groups  which most often, produce little. The lack of processing facilities to add value to his produce is not helping matters. Come what may, Kuh Emmanuel  has the stated commitment to be forward moving with agriculture. It is against this background that he operates a Resource Center in the neighourhood of his farms.

It is a seed production center  for improved planting materials and medicinal plants, fruit trees, plantains, soil fertility trees and trees for the protection of their water catchment. At Press time, the Center was rehearsing to receive more students from Technical and Regional colleges of Agriculture, Bambili, Bamenda Cooperative college and the University of Dshang. The farms and Resource  Center  have become the destination for regular internship or practical lessons for students in the Agriculture sector.