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GEOGRAPHY FROM 4 SCIENCE

CHAPTER 3 : Resource and exploitation

Methods of exploitation
  • Forest exploitation in Cameroon uses both traditional and modern methods of timber exploitation
  • The traditional method involves the use of crude tools such as axes and cutlasses in felling trees
  • This is mostly carried out by individuals
  • On the other hand, the modern method involves the use of potable engine source in felling, caterpillars, bulldozers are also used for exploitation.

Cameroon has about 100 licenses industrial companies involved in exploitation e.g. CoCam mbalmayo which roduces ply woods, sofibel, belabor, sfid Doume, Tic in kumba.

par Claude Foumtum