Lebaga Eloy

I like to face new challenges and i never give up. I always get business on the thing that I am doing so much that I do not see time flies.

June 2016 till date: Sales Agronomist /Cocoa Champion at Yara Cameroon (Centre-south-east regions)

• Been able to achieve over 80% of set targets (demonstration plots -100%, Farmer field school – 100% and sales – 89%) consecutively for two years.
• Set up 5 demonstration plots (average 1 hectare each) per year in the last 2 years;
• Worked with 100 farmer field schools (FFS) per year in the last 2 years;
• Implemented the pull and push strategy targeting farmers, retailers and distributors in the fertilizer chain to create demand at the level of the end users;
• Organized at least 3 crop clinics per week (106 per year) in the last 2 years on crop nutritional advice to farmers, tailoring of fertilizer scheme and promoting the new nutritional program tailored for the cocoa farmers. 
• Supported and followed up at least 500 farmers who use YARA products to increase production and subsequently their livelihoods.

• Identified hotspots for growing cocoa and created at least 7 Common Initiative Groups per Cooperative (350 groups) to encourage the farmers to increase the quality of cocoa in the Centre region of Cameroon (Makenene, Bafia, Mbangasina, Ntui and Batchenga) aimed at increasing farmer incomes;
• Trained at least 50 cooperatives in these localities (Makenene, Bafia, Mbangasina, Ntui and Batchenga) on post-harvest processes in the cocoa value chain;
• Led the evaluation of cocoa during group sales in order to ensure only high quality cocoa is purchased;
• Trained farmers to produce high quality flavor Cocoa and facilitated their sales to OLAM;
• Carried out a feasibility study on Arabica coffee production in France ville Gabon. (Olam Cameroon and Olam Gabon);
• Conceived and produced a Robusta coffee training manual and led the demonstration of 4C license compliance with the targeted farmers;
• Carried out a 4C certification on Robusta coffee for 1000 farmers to produce 2000 tons of coffee in the lower noun of Cameroon (Malantouen);
• Carried out 4C certification on Arabica coffee for 3500 farmers to produce 5000 tons of coffee in the North West region of Cameroon (Kumbo). 

• Supervised farmer meetings, 
• organized training of trainers workshops and 
• Coordinated trials against Coffee berry disease;

2004-2010: Five years diploma in agriculture (Diplôme d’ingénieur Agronome), Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences (FASA) of the University of Dschang.

2006: ‘Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Générales en Sciences Agronomiques’ (DEUG-SA), Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences (FASA) of the University of Dschang.

2004: General Certificate of Education (GCE) A-level. Subjects: Further mathematics, mathematics, chemistry and biology. Mevick Bilingual Grammer School etoug ebe, Yaounde.

2002: General Certificate of Education (GCE) O- level. Subjects: Mathematics, Biology Chemistry, History, Geography, French, English and Religious Studies. Mevick Bilingual Grammer School etoug ebe, Yaounde.