1.0 Introduction
The main objective of this study is to have an insight look into the types of farmers union in Cameroon and to expose some of the practical difficulties faced by the farmers and the farm-ers unions. In the due course of this thesis I will be looking at what work is done by farmers unions and what limits them as they struggle to better cocoa farming through their different activities. Bettering Cocoa farming means that farmers are assisted to make their job more easy and enjoyable, make the sale of cocoa more profitable and ease the access to fund and farm materials for farmers. As a child who grow up and the agricultural community, I have witnessed the tremendous and huge efforts put forth by farmers to make the best of what they do, but it ends, to benefit just a mechanism, system or political figure who at the tail end do not in any way contribute to add value to the cocoa output.
Despite the fact the numerous farmers union do exist from within different sectors, it still difficult to ascertain that members in such unions have an understanding of the obligation, duties and responsibilities one union and another union, and between unions and some coop-erative societies. For the purpose of this study, it will be important to limit the study to co-coa workers farmers union. The idea behind the limitation is to make the research more spe-cific and to be able to trace and manage information from a particular operation with more concentration on the particular player. The idea here is to be able to identify specific trend of problems and make a more valuable contribution to the problem. Contribution generally will include,
- How do farmers unions operate
- What challenges are faced by cocoa farmers unions
- How farmers unions secure better services for cocoa farmers in Cameroon.
- Finally recommendation for implementation
These mean that we will be able by the end of the study to understand the mechanism of Workers union in the context of cocoa farmers in Cameroon operates. It will important also to identify the most important unions and be able to sight specific problem that limit economic sustainability in agriculture
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