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=Project Banka Coop= | =Project Banka Coop= | ||
==Context== | ==Context== | ||
The idea of starting a worker | The idea of starting a worker coop in the rural village of Banka in Bafang Cameroon Africa came from the need to encourage local consumption of foodstuff cultivated by local agricultural laborers and create a trading platform to facilitate the buying between Cameroonian producers and buyers. | ||
==Project== | ==Project== | ||
To | To initiate a cooperative of farmers and trader groups using new technologies to facilitate the transactions between producers and buyers. The members of the coop can advertise their goods and offers on a Web site with their own Internet addresses, and farmer and trader groups can set up Web sites to manage all these services for their members. The cooperative can also have a local store where producers can advertise and sell their products to local community members. | ||
===Project Objectives=== | ===Project Objectives=== | ||
::To enable Cameroonian agriculturers to prosper through timely supply of reliable, high quality local agricultural inputs and services, to faciliate the trade between rural and urban buyers and to initiate other socio-economic activitities to improve the welfare of the Bafang community. | ::To enable Cameroonian agriculturers to prosper through timely supply of reliable, high quality local agricultural inputs and services, to faciliate the trade between rural and urban buyers and to initiate other socio-economic activitities to improve the welfare of the Bafang community. | ||