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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ministry of Planning

National Investment Promotion Agency

ANAPI

PROVINCE OF TANGANYIKA




County town: KALEMIA

Area: 134,940 km2

Population: 3,062,000 inhabitants 

Opportunities related to valuable resources

Pathways

Valuable resources

Types of industries to develop or establish

Agro industry

Corn, Cassava, Peanut, Hari- cot, Sweet potato, Soybean, Cotton, Onion, Squash, Papaya, Pineapple, Palm nuts, Plantain, Sugar cane, Potato, Garlic

Fish from Lake TANGANYIKA and the LUKUGA River (144 fish species)

Cow, pork, goat, bees

Storage units for agricultural products and fish: Dehydrators (drying units) and canneries;

Processing units for agricultural products: flour mills, starch mills, brewery, spinning and weaving unit, sugar factories, production units for banana and potato chips, soap factories, cold cuts, tanning unit, oil refineries, biofuel production unit, honey production unit, margarine production unit, Soybean oil mills, fish smoking units, ...

Construction materials

Limestones, Rubble, clay, Silica, wood (Black, red, white, and others)

Cement works, Aggregate production units, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal foundries, glass manufacturing unit, modern carpentry, modern carpentry, quicklime, slaked lime and school chalk production units

Valuation mining and metallurgical cal

To be mined: Gold, Cassiterite, Coal, Colombo tantalite Already mined: Silver, Oil, Copper, Nickel, Platinum

petroleum exploitation and refining unit Other minerals exploitation unit

Packaging

Silica, Tin

unit for manufacturing glasses, bottles and glass jars

tin can production unit tin leaf production unit

Sources: developed by CEPI using data from provincial delegates

Other opportunities

  • Existence of three hydroelectric dams: from Kiyimbi Bendera to Kalemie, Mpiana-Mwanga to Manono, and from Ngandwe Fwambe to Moba;
  • Possibility of installing other hydroelectric dams on the identified sites: in Kongolo at the gates of Hell, in Kalemie at the level of Kiyimbi II;
  • Its geographical position: neighboring province with Tanzania, Zambia and Burundi across the Lake

Ground

  • Ferralsols
  • Arero-ferrals Hydro-kaolisols Ferrisols
  • Recent tropical soils
  • Tropical black earth on alluvium

Vegetation

  • Dense humid forest
  • Clear forest (Miliomo)
  • Bamboo forest
  • Savannah
  • Meadow