Claude urges people to utilise natural resources
Claude urges people to utilise natural resourcesBy Freddy Phiri
Saturday December 15, 2007 [03:00]
A Mpulungu businessman Jean Claude has said it is time for local people to start utilising the abundant natural resources in Northern Province. Claude said this when Northern Province acting permanent secretary Gabriel Kaunda toured his mini-mango juice processing plant in Mpulungu recently.
Claude said the province was rich in natural resources such as mangoes that had not been exploited fully for the benefit of the local people.
He said he established the mango juice factory after realising that several tonnes of mangoes were going to waste every year in Mpulungu.
Claude said once his plant started operating at full capacity it would produce 250 tonnes of mango juice and in turn create jobs for the locals.
Claude further said he planned to use the same mango processing plant to produce tomato juice products for sale.
And Kaunda praised Claude for embarking on the project and said if people started realising the benefits of exploiting the existing potential in the province, poverty would be reduced.
Mpulungu is one of the areas in Zambia that has a conducive climatic condition for growing mangoes.
Labels: AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURING
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