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Gorongosa Park funds coffee processing plant – Mozambique
12:24 CAT | 22 Aug 2017
File photo / A coffee picker displays ripe, bright red coffee beans.
Gorongosa National Park (PNG) is planning to start processing coffee this year, with construction of a processing plant in the village already in the final stages.
US$500,000 has been allocated for the purchase of equipment and is part of the range of social responsibility actions that the Park administration has been developing.
Coffee has been grown sustainably in the Gorongosa hills in Sofala province since 2013.
PNG administrator Mateus Muthemba says the coffee will be sold initially in the national market, possibly under a “Gorongosa” brand name.
“We intend to associate the product with the tourist operation, making coffee available to tourists and guests of PNG,” he said. But as production increases, marketing may spread to other parts of Mozambique and perhaps even the international market, Muthemba says.
Muthemba explains that the project began in 2013 with the planting of the first nurseries, involving 80 households and covering an area of 30 hectares. The intervention is limited to replenishing vegetation cover destroyed by slash and burn agriculture.
Source: Notícias
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