SOUTH KIVU PROVINCE
County town: BUKAVU
Area: 64,791 km2
Population: 5,772,000 inhabitants
Opportunities related to valuable resources
Pathways |
Valuable resources |
Types of industries to develop or establish |
Agro industry |
Corn, Cassava, Plantains, Beans, potatoes, Paddy rice (RUZIZI plain, MWENGE), tomato, mango, rice, plums, onions, cocoa, coffee, sugar cane, pineapple, walnuts palm, cotton, wheat, maracuja, quinine, Cows, fish in Lakes Tanganika and KIVU, broiler and laying chicken |
Dehydrators (drying unit), flour mills, chips production unit (potato, banana), concentrated tomato production unit, apple puree production unit, Pineapple juice manufacturing unit, sugar refinery, palm oil production unit, margarine production unit, biscuit palm oil refinery unit , soap factories, cinchona processing unit, mineral water production unit, fish smoking unit, modern slaughterhouses, cold meats |
Materials building |
Rubble, clay, wood, limestone, silica |
Cement works, quicklime and slaked lime production unit, aggregates unit, window production unit, modern joinery |
Mining and metallurgical recovery |
Gold, cassiterite, coltan, To be exploited: mobilgorite, silver, diamond, |
Gold, cassiterite and coltan recovery unit Diamond, silver exploitation unit |
Coking and manufacturing of petroleum products |
Methane gas from Lake Kivu |
Methane gas extraction unit |
Packaging |
Silica, used cardboard, plastic waste |
Recycling unit for used cartons and plastic waste in packaging Glass bottles and jars production unit |
Sources: developed by CEPI using data from provincial delegates
Other opportunities
- Existence of the RUZIZI I and RUZIZI II hydroelectric power stations;
- Hydroelectric sites: from MWENGA, KAMANYOLA, BARAKA, RUZIZI III, KILIZA, KILIBA, SISI and PANZI;
- Possibility of installing a thermal power station operating on methane gas
Ground
- Recent volcanic soils / raw mineral soils
- Ancient volcanic soils
- Soils of the alluvial plains or black tropical lands
- Soils derived from ancient rocks
Vegetation
- Lowland dense forest
- Dense mountain forest
- Savannah
- Steps
- Bamboo forest at high altitude
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