The local currency is the CFA-franc. Timber is also a major export. The main commercial crops are cocoa, coffee, tobacco, cotton, and bananas. Other commercially grown crops are rubber, palm products, and sugarcane. Subsistence crops include cassava, corn, plantains, sweet potatoes and millet.
Telephones are available only to business and government.
Domestic access to telephones is available only through cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter. South African cellular service provider, MTN, has indicated that it intends installing Informix-based cellular systems in Cameroon. There are a number of international airlines, which fly to Cameroon. The international airport is at Douala and there are regular connections to Yaounde. As at September 1995 all nationals except visitors from Germany require visas in order to visit Cameroon.