NORTH KIVU PROVINCE

County town: GOMA

Area: 59,483 km2

Population: 6,655,000 inhabitants

Pathways	Valuable resources	Types of industries to be developed or established
Agro industry	Beans, Potatoes, Coffee, Tea, Palm nuts, Onions, Orange, Bananas, Pineapples, Sugar cane, Rice, etc. Fishes in Lake Kivu and Lake Edouard Cows, goats, broiler and laying chicken	Industries for processing and preserving agricultural products, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, rice mills, coffee drying units, juice manufacturing units, oil mills, margarine production unit, chicken and egg production units, sugar refinery, mineral water production units, mayonnaise production units, fish smoking units, potato and banana chips production units, potato mash production unit etc.
Construction materials	Volcanic lava, rough or black sand, limestone, wood	Cement works, aggregate production unit, quicklime and slaked lime production units, modern carpentry, cellulose production unit.
Valuation mining and metallurgical	Gold, Cassiterite, wolfram, Colombo tantalite To be exploited: niobium, sapphire, monazite, Beryl	Semi-industrial mineral exploitation units in the province Gold recovery unit, Cassiterite (foundry) of Coltan and wolfram
Packaging	Plastic waste, used cardboard, wood	Recycling units for plastic waste and used cardboard
Hydrocar bures	Methane gas	Thermal power plant, gas exploitation plant

Sources: developed by CEPI using data from provincial delegates

Existence of hydroelectric power stations of: RUZIZI, MATEBE, BUTEMBO;

Possibility of installing other hydroelectric dams at the sites of: KISALA, RU-WENZORI 1, RUWENZORI 2, MUHUMA, MUNGOMA, NGINGWE, BINZA, OSSO;

Possibility of establishing factories for the production of plastic packaging from imported materials;

Geographic position: border with Rwanda and Uganda which constitute potential markets;

Possibility of establishing chemical fertilizer production plants.

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