Facing ever since the early 70's the steady population growth and specifically the rapid expansion of the urban population, Cameroun has, over the past decade, been striving through various agricultural policies to resolve the evident imbalance between cash crops and food crops. Among different measures, the government intervened directly in the commercialisation of food crops. This study attemps to analyze the results of this policy and eventually demonstrates how is the governmental intervention limited within an economy which is certainly poor but where the private sector has proved its dynamism.
