Uganda: Aloe Vera Farmers to Get Sh1b Plant

New Vision (Kampala)
February 14, 2007Posted to the web February 15, 2007
Kiganda Ssonko
Kampala

UGANDA Commercial Aloe-Vera Farmers Association and a U.S. firm have raised $600,000 (about sh1b) to put up a processing plant.

The plant will process the multi-medicinal plant into various health products.

"It (plant) will process Aloe-Vera into cosmetics, toothpaste, health drinks and the residues would be turned into animal feeds," Ali Sessanga, the project director, said.

He explained that the plant would help farmers sustain the export market.

Sessanga added that the machinery was acquired through a long-term loan. Aloe-Vera has not been processed in Uganda before.

Sessanga said the machine has the capacity to crush 60 144 acres of Aloe-Vera per month. Uganda's Aloe-Vera acreage is 912acres.

This means that farmers should pull up their socks to produce more crop.
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