Mozambique: Gorongosa producing, processing honey, coffee

Since Friday, the Gorongosa district, in the heart of Mozambique’s best-known national park, has been the first in the country to produce and process honey locally, at a daily rate of 300 kilograms, and is thinking of expanding to cashews. ‘This factory is the result of environmental conservation. The forest in Gorongosa is providing employment, it’s attracting factories. As well as this, we also have the coffee factory, which is still running at half capacity, but is producing,’ explained the administrator of Gorongosa National Park, Pedro Muagura, in an interview with Lusa. This is an initiative of Gorongosa National Park (PNG) in central Mozambique, with funding of $174,000 (€160,000) from the governments of Ireland and Canada through a biodiversity conservation programme. ‘This factory has a production capacity of 1,000 kilograms of honey per day and is currently processing around 300 kilograms, but it could go up to 2,000 kilograms,’ added the PNG administrator, stressing ...