Farming Should Build People Too

Local Employment

BnH Farms’ operating structure creates layered employment across the farming calendar. At the core are 18 full-time roles: 8 unit heads coordinating field execution across cocoa, oil palm and livestock; 9 technicians providing pillar-level technical support; and 1 veterinary doctor maintaining the livestock programme. Around this core, 25 to 100 contract workers are mobilised each month. Quieter periods draw 25 to 35 workers; peak periods for land clearing, planting, weeding, harvesting and fire belt maintenance can require 70 to 100.

Women in the Farm Economy

BnH Farms has adopted a formalised 30 percent women engagement target across all suitable roles. These include nursery support, cocoa sorting, post-harvest handling, field records, food and vendor services, seedling preparation and selected field operations. Based on monthly contract labour capacity, this translates to a practical commitment of 8 to 30 women engaged during every active month. This is structured, documented participation in a growing agricultural enterprise, designed to be tracked and reported to institutional partners.

Youth Agricultural Programme

BnH Farms targets the supervised training of more than 50 young people each year through field assignments, safety briefings, crop handling, pasture work and practical farm management. The programme is designed to show a different version of agriculture to young Cameroonians: farming as discipline, enterprise and long-term opportunity. Over a three-year horizon, this builds a pipeline of trained workers rooted in the Bertoua community and reduces the farm’s dependence on untrained seasonal labour.

Local Vendor and Service Provider Programme

BnH Farms formally documents more than 20 local vendors and service providers each year as part of its local economic footprint. These include transporters, tool suppliers, food vendors, nursery suppliers, small contractors and community service providers. This figure is tracked annually and reported to institutional and development partners upon request. It grows as the farm expands and records improve.