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The Ongoing Plantain Multiplication Project 2025
Empowering Farmers, Boosting Food Security, and Sustaining Livelihoods At THOF Group, our commitment to sustainable agriculture and community empowerment has always been at the heart of what we do. In line with our mission to combat food insecurity and unemployment, especially among youth in Africa, we proudly launched The Plantain Multiplication Project 2025 — a bold and innovative initiative designed to expand plantain production through modern agricultural techniques. This ongoing project is more than just a farming activity — it’s a grassroots movement, a pilot program built on collaboration, education, and impact. What is Plantain Multiplication? Plantain multiplication is the agricultural practice of rapidly producing high-yielding, disease-free plantain suckers (seedlings) from parent plants using advanced methods such as macro-propagation, micro-propagation, or split corm techniques. These methods allow farmers to grow many healthy plantain seedlings from a single mother plant in a short period, accelerating the production cycle and increasing the supply of quality planting material. Unlike traditional methods, where farmers wait months or even years for suckers to grow naturally, multiplication techniques empower them to generate hundreds of suckers within weeks, making plantain farming more efficient, profitable, and scalable. Why Plantain? Why Now? Plantain is a staple food and a vital source of nutrition in many African households. It is not only rich in fiber, potassium, and vitamins but also enjoys high market demand year-round. Despite its importance, many farmers still struggle to access quality planting material, leading to low yields and poor crop performance. That’s where our project comes
Enhancing horticulture skills for the Fako inhabitants via community demonstration farms: a THOF led initiative to empower communities through gardening production
Enhancing horticulture skills for the Fako inhabitants via community demonstration farms: a THOF led initiative to empower communities through gardening production Since its creation, THOF has been very conspicuous and instrumental in running developmental activities to improve communities via her demonstration farm project. Located in the Fako Division precisely in Buea and Tiko, THOF has been providing hands-on capacity building to women and youths on managing and running a successful vegetable garden for home nutrition and even commerce. For closed to four years the organisation has been able to train more than 50 plus farmers and is mentoring others through her outreach initiative. Participants that have been on the programmes have gained valuable gardening skills such as identifying and managing quality seed, preparing a great nursery for a successful farming season and managing farm using cost-effective technique for quality and high earn output.
Alternative pathways for youngsters in colleges during a challenging time in Cameroon: an initiative with the Borstal Institute Buea
Alternative pathways for youngsters in colleges during a challenging time in Cameroon: an initiative with the Borstal Institute Buea Much talk on our educational curricular and the relevance to the modern youths considered to be the future of our nature has provoked thoughts in government and partners. This is the premise of a six weeks hands-on practical initiative to train youngsters in secondary school. These kids have been out of school due to the crisis in the English speaking region of Cameroon were recruited for the skill development training. Some younths were selected by the social affairs delegation institute for rehabilitation and moral uprightness – the Borstal institute Buea to help organise their thoughts towards an entrepreneurial future. Four main categories of enterprises were selected to drill trainees including gardening, poultry, painting and fashion designing. THOF was very instrumental in assisting the institution in the gardening domain. The initiative was jointly sponsored by the Duke of Edinburgh award and the Cameroon government as “an alternative pathway to life challenges”. Throughout this period, the youngsters had fun working in the garden from planning, seed selection, nursery preparation and field transplant to harvesting of vegetables.
Towards a green campus – Engaging colleges in Tiko municipality, Fako division, SWR Cameroon
Towards a green campus – Engaging colleges in Tiko municipality, Fako division, SWR Cameroon One of THOF objectives is to establish a sustainable landscape where humans will be able to live alongside natural/recreational space. Creating greenspace within our campuses will only go a long way to improve students’ health and relieve them from excessive brain activities. Trees and biodiversity are essential components of human wellbeing. This is the basis for the campus tree campaign by the Tiko Municipalities in which THOF actively anticipated. Using THOF expertise through the input from one of their members, with extensive knowledge in trees and greenspace on Campus. Some environmentally conscious school children encourage this event by joining their voices to grace the week-long activities in Tiko subdivision. The campuses including the district health centers were enriched with fruit and ornamental trees. The benefit of this was to improve health for school children, mitigate climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and providing space for other species such as birds and other lifeforms of importance to the environment.