By Bakah Derick
The North West Cooperative Association (NWCA) has received close 40 students interested in the production and processing of coffee. The final year students from National Cooperative College Bamenda visited NWCA's Mile 3 Nkwen Head Quarters on Thursday 16 February as part of an academic field trip.
On hand to receive the students was the Administrator of NWCA. While reaffirming his institution's commitment to respect the partnership that unites them with the National Cooperative College, Mathew Ngangwa presented an overview of NWCA, the different structures from society to the apex organization NWCA. He outlined the governance structure of the association explaining the role of the executive organs before leading the students in a guided tour of NWCA. Mathew Ngangwa also used the moment to encourage the students to take genuine interest in the production of coffee like their many of their grand parents and parents did.
The students went through the finance, control, marketing, plant unit and stores services where they received sufficient information on their functioning from the different service heads.
The Director of the National Cooperative College Ngumbi Eveline who accompanied the students expressed gratitude to NWCA for the collaboration in the training of future Cooperative experts. She expressed the wish that the collaboration stays for as long possible to permit her institution continue to send out trainees with appropriate field knowledge.
Created in 1950, NWCA has 12 affiliated Cooperative Credit Unions and over 40 societies made up of well over 35.000 farmers from across the North West Region of Cameroon actively involved in the cultivation of coffee.