HEVECAM RUBBER

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The project would comprise a third phase of four-and-a-half years in the development program of a rubber plantation estate within HEVECAM's Niete concession. Its main objective would be to complete the establishment of the planned 15,000 ha of rubber with its associated industrial and social infrastructure, bringing the plantation to a state of commercial exploitation. It would consist of the following components: (i) maintenance of areas planted under previous Bank-financed projects and initial tapping of about 9,000 ha; as well as; (ii) continuation of the program of infrastructure establishment, including estate buildings, housing for estate workers, and expansion of crumb rubber processing facilities. The project would include; (iii) associated programs, namely the expansion to 500 ha of the outgrower program, a pilot program of food crop production aimed at provision of basic foodstuffs for workers, and studies and rubber trials (in the areas of Kribi and the Southern and Eastern provinces).