Unlikely use of coffee husks in Africa

It has been said that the Africans are a particularly resourceful nation and they manage to recycle and reuse many items as part of their daily life.

They are also a true coffee growing continent – it is said that the first coffee plants were discovered by a goat herd in Ethiopia and, nowadays, coffee is a big export business for many African countries.

Recent articles in the news also show that in Uganda, a rather canny idea has been put in place, to combine the abundance of coffee and also to put into action the Africans’ resourcefulness….

A company called Hima Cement, part of the LaFarge Group, was said to be looking for another energy source.

It operates a manufacturing plant in Uganda and came up with a project to boost coffee production in the Rwenzori area of the country.

How did it do this?

With the provision of seedlings – to the tune, apparently of $783,570.

Why did it do this?

Because the company has a plan to use the coffee husks as a way of providing energy.

The advantages of this energy production scheme are that it will avoid the need to use more environmentally unfriendly sources, such as fossil fuels.

The advantage is that the new plan would also promote coffee growth in the area.

It is said that a minimum of 14,000 seedlings are to be planted over the next five years and this would aim at supporting some 45,000 farmers.

From: worldcoffeenews.com