GFT / Fact base / Register cutoff 2026-10-30
Keep the
evidence in view.
A useful fact carries its source, boundary and limits. Inspect the record before carrying the number into a decision.
A 0, B 2, C 26, D 4: 32 records. Point at a grade to read it.
A transparent register
Grade the source. Keep the qualification.
These are transcribed programme-annex records. The original source articles have not been independently reverified for this hub.
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Point at a knot or focus one to name it.
All grades
All grades. 32 records: 0 graded A, 2 graded B, 26 graded C, 4 graded D. Grade names the type of source the annex recorded.
Grade A. Official sources. No record in the supplied register carries this grade. Nothing here is backed by an official source, and the page does not fill the thread.
Grade B. Institutional or major research. R18 and R27: read the original report and keep its scope.
Grade C. Trade or local press, market-research vendor. The largest group: a recorded article or listing, not an article-open receipt.
Grade D. Unverified or missing. All 4 are references missing from the source annex, so the assertions tied to them are excluded.
Grade names the type of source. It is not a probability that a statement is correct.
The annex, with its limits
Every finding keeps its reference attached.
Institutional or major research
Read the original report and keep its scope.
2records
- 2020, 2025
AGOA: Cameroon terminated effective 1 January 2020 for gross human-rights violations; remained ineligible; listed ineligible for calendar year 2025.
- Annex
AI at scale in fashion: inventory cost down 35 to 40 percent; forecast accuracy up 20 to 30 percent; revenue per customer up 15 to 25 percent; forecast errors cut 20 to 50 percent; lost sales down up to 65 percent; 75 percent of executives prioritising; sector operating-profit potential US$150 to 275 billion over three to five years.
Trade or local press, market-research vendor
Recorded as supplied, not reopened for this hub.
26records
CCotton base and industry
- 2022, 2023, 2024
Cameroon seed-cotton production 2022-2024: 330,000 t (2022), 314,455 t (2023), about 340,000 t (2024).
- 2025
2025 seed-cotton projection above 350,000 t.
- Annex
Company profile: more than 220,000 cotton producers supported in northern Cameroon; nine ginning plants; two oil mills.
- Annex
SODECOTON injects roughly US$100 million a year into rural communities.
- 2024
CFA-zone cotton output 2.3 million t in 2024/25, down 11.5 percent.
- Annex
About 95 percent of cotton fibre exported raw against 5 percent processed locally; industrialisation target of 50 percent local processing.
- 2030
SND30 restates the 50 percent local-processing target by 2030.
- 2030
Announced SODECOTON and CICAM merger to create a cotton-textile industrial pole targeted by 2030.
CProjects, mills and wages
- 2025
Camtext SA integrated cotton-to-textile project, US$300 million (180 billion XAF); Panafritex and Arise with SODECOTON, CNPS and Marlo; 12 November 2025.
- Annex
Camtext SA: 12,000 t a year processed; about 12,000 jobs at the Dibamba hub and 3,000 at Garoua; return on investment near 11 years; optimal capacity around 2033.
- Annex
CICAM market share from about 85 percent three decades ago to about 5 percent today.
- 2020, 2023
CICAM capacity utilisation, July 2023 report: Garoua 33.7 percent, CICAM 1 48.9 percent, CICAM 2 10.83 percent; underutilisation cost about CFAF 2 billion in 2020.
- Annex
CICAM restructuring cost estimate CFAF 30.7 to 48.2 billion; one relaunch plan cited at 70.2 billion.
- 2023, 2024
Cameroon minimum wage (SMIG) XAF 41,875 a month in 2023, raised to XAF 43,969 a month from 23 February 2024, about US$76, a rise of 5 percent.
- Annex
Average salary across sectors in Cameroon about US$359 a month.
- Annex
Informal share of employment about 90 percent; standard 40-hour week, 48-hour maximum, overtime at 1.2 times.
- 2024
Cambodia garment-sector minimum wage US$204 a month for 2024 (labour-cost benchmark).
CMarkets, technology and exchange
- Annex
Textiles and clothing among unresolved AfCFTA tariff-line categories; 92.3 percent of lines agreed excluding vehicles, textiles and clothing.
- 2025, 2030
Africa textile market about US$37.3 billion in 2025, projected US$49.41 billion by 2030 at 4.73 percent a year.
- 2024
Africa textile market to about US$72.7 billion by 2035 at 6.9 percent a year; fashion and apparel 48.1 percent of the market in 2024.
- 2023, 2024, 2027
Cameroon clothing and footwear spend about US$94.70 a person in 2024 and about 8.0 pieces a person; apparel eCommerce revenue US$20.32 million (2023) to US$33.61 million (2027) at 13.41 percent a year; user penetration 18.0 percent (2023) to 22.7 percent (2027).
- 2024
Fabric-defect-detection AI market US$523.4 million (2024) to US$6,522.1 million (2033) at 33.8 percent a year; Asia-Pacific about 46 percent in 2024.
- Annex
Manual defect inspection 60 to 70 percent accurate, missing 20 to 30 percent of defects; computer vision above 90 percent across more than 40 defect types; line-scan inspection up to 60 metres a minute.
- 2023, 2024
Generative AI in apparel 2023-2024 mainly design-side image generation (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) across style, silhouette, colour and pattern.
- 2025, 2026
By 2025-2026 the field moved to multi-model garment-design pipelines (fabric construction, shade, weave, silhouette) and physics-constrained generation coupling neural generation with simulation validation.
- 2023
CFA franc to US dollar reference rates; franc pegged to the euro at 655.957. The GFT study's method note places the franc near 590 to 610 per US dollar across the 2023 study window and near 563 to 577 more recently, and treats currency conversions as estimates.
Unverified or missing
Each gap is research work, not a fact.
4records
- Gap · Grade D
Missing. Not citable. Research must establish a source, date and passage before use.
- Gap · Grade D
Missing. Not citable. Research must establish a source, date and passage before use.
- Gap · Grade D
Missing. Not citable. Research must establish a source, date and passage before use.
- Gap · Grade D
Missing. Not citable. Research must establish a source, date and passage before use.
No record matches. Change the search or reset the register.
Record R06, read in four states
Sentence read from register record R06
About 95 percent of cotton fibre exported raw against 5 percent processed locally; industrialisation target of 50 percent local processing.
- UnitWhat is counted: percent of fibre, or tonnes?
- PeriodNot stated in the sentence. Another record dates the target to 2030.
- PlaceWhere it applies: a country, a region, a plant
- BoundaryWhat is in and out: fibre, not seed cotton
R06 is grade C. It records a trade-press source type. Keep the source date and the limitation beside the number.
- 1The sentence, with unit, period, place and boundary
- 2The source, with its recorded location
- 3The grade, with its limitation
- 4A bounded decision
Gap in the chainNarrow the claim, or research further.
Schematic, not data: a conceptual path with one real record as the example.
The anatomy of a claim
The sentence is only the start of the record.
Select each state, or scroll, to see how a reference becomes usable evidence. A stronger label cannot repair a missing source.
Keep the unit, period, geography and type of claim intact. A policy target, projection, estimate and operating result are not interchangeable. A material transformation can change the denominator even when the wording still says cotton.
Extracted tokens from R06 sentence
UNIT · SHARE95% raw / 5% localShare of cotton fibre, not tonnageBOUNDARY · MATERIALCotton fibre onlyExcludes unginned seed cottonPLACE · SCOPECameroon nationalSector-wide ratio, not one millTYPE · AMBITION50% target (2030)Policy goal dated via R07The source register preserves the publisher and location supplied by the programme annex. A domain is a research lead. It does not establish which article was read, when it was read or whether the wording still reflects current conditions.
Provenance trace · recorded vs unverified
Annex IDR06 · Grade CPublisherCameroon TradeArticle pathNot on fileDomain recorded: cameroontradehub.cm · Research lead only
The supplied grade describes source type. It is not a probability that a statement is correct. The same publisher can publish a forecast, an interview and an observed statistic, each with different limits. Keep the source date and qualification beside the claim.
Source grade vs claim mechanic in the 32-record annex
Where an important premise remains uncertain, collect stronger evidence before relying on it. Keep missing records visible as research work. A gap in the source chain should restrict the claim rather than be hidden by an attractive chart or an exact-looking model.
Decision gate · how R06 enters a model
Permitted useScenario range input with 95% raw / 5% local share and conversion assumptions visible.Restricted useDo not treat the 50% 2030 policy target as current operating output or demand.Thread continues below: R06 becomes the 100% material-basis axis ↓
A denominator changes the story
Fibre is not seed cotton. A target is not output.
Approximately the share of cotton fibre exported raw, recorded in R06, against about 5 percent processed locally.
The annex records a national local-processing target of 50 percent by 2030. That is a policy objective, not a present processing share, a demand level or GFT’s delivered production.
No ratio is recorded for seed cotton. Applying the raw-export share to seed-cotton tonnage needs a separate ginning conversion assumption, and that assumption has to stay explicit.
95%
of cotton fibre exported raw, about
The programme context concerns cotton fibre. Seed-cotton production sits on a different material basis. The same discipline applies to ambition: a target tells a reader where a policy aims, not where the industry stands or what any single operator has produced.
The graphic is schematic. Read the source wording before deriving a quantity, and carry the conversion inputs with the calculation. Hand-over: the axis bends right into the source-hierarchy routes below.
A source can support a narrower sentence
Make uncertainty visible before it becomes a model input.
An official release, research paper and trade report have different roles. Where an article reports another organisation’s figure, seek the original before making a decision depend on it. Preserve the secondary route when it explains how the figure entered the programme.
Different estimates can reflect scope, period, currency or market definition. Do not average them to create apparent agreement. Name the difference and decide which boundary fits the question. A range stays more useful than false precision when the definitions differ.
A sector statistic cannot prove a factory’s result. A technology benchmark cannot establish detection performance on a new fabric. Define the local comparator, capture method and acceptance condition before claiming an improvement. Keep adverse observations as part of the record.
Publishers and recorded locations
Who recorded the references, and where.
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Business in Cameroon carries 6 of the 32 records.
Scrub the 23 recorded locations. Tick height is the number of records citing it.
businessincameroon.comLocation 1 of 23. Domain .com. Cited by R01, R02, R08, R11, R12, R13.
A publisher count shows where the annex looked. It does not show which source is right. A location is a research lead, not an article-open receipt.
Choose the next evidence task
Keep the thread attached to the decision.
Which grade is the source behind your number? Select a grade tile to light its decision path:
Verdict: Rely on the official record directly, with its publication date and material boundary attached.
Read the record as written, with its date and boundary. A top grade still needs a current check before a new decision. Start from the publisher locations.
Sources23publisher locations recorded against these references
Verdict: Keep the institutional report’s scope intact and classify the claim in the method workbench.
Open the original report, keep its scope, then classify the sentence as sourced, derived, illustrative or unresolved before reuse.
Method4statuses a sentence can hold: sourced, derived, illustrative or unresolved
Verdict: Treat the trade-press figure as an explicit scenario input, not a verified constant.
Seek the original release or a second source. Until then, treat the figure as a scenario input with its assumptions visible, not as a fact.
Tools24scenario instruments that keep every assumption visible
Verdict: Withhold the figure from models until primary source documentation is on file.
Treat it as open research. Withhold the number until a source, a date and the supporting passage are on file.
Library20papers registered in the research library
The register sits inside GFT’s Cameroon textile programme of 3 parts: a feasibility study, a performance-management system design and a digital strategy. Read the programme context. A source record explains where a statement came from; it does not certify that the statement is sufficient for a new decision. These records are not investment, legal or tax advice.