Cameroon’s banana exports rose 7 percent in 2025, driven by strong growth from two producers despite weaker shipments from the country’s largest exporter and the exit of a smaller player from the market.
The country exported 225,345 metric tons of bananas in 2025, up from 210,686 metric tons in 2024, according to figures released by the banana industry association Assobacam.
The strongest growth came from Compagnie des bananes de Mondoni (CDBM), the second Cameroon-based subsidiary of France’s Compagnie fruitière de Marseille. CDBM’s exports surged 69.5 percent to 23,814 metric tons in 2025, compared with 14,052 metric tons a year earlier.
State-owned agro-industrial firm Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) also posted a sharp increase, with exports rising 33.6 percent to 42,286 metric tons, up from 31,643 metric tons in 2024.
By contrast, exports from Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP), the leading local subsidiary of Compagnie fruitière and Cameroon’s biggest banana producer, slipped 1% to 151,713 metric tons in 2025 from 153,258 metric tons the previous year.
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Boh Plantations Plc, now the sector’s smallest operator, recorded the steepest decline. Its exports fell 35.8 percent to 7,532 metric tons, down from 11,733 metric tons in 2024.
The drop followed the company’s suspension of exports from September 2025, after its assets were acquired by CDBM and PHP.
The takeover further tightens the dominance of Compagnie fruitière in Cameroon’s banana industry, where the French group is now reported to control more than 80% of national production.
Bananas, most of which are exported to the European Union, remain one of Cameroon’s top 10 non-oil export products.
Under its National Development Strategy 2020–2030, Cameroon is targeting annual banana output of 500,000 metric tons by 2030.
