Sisal (Mkonge / Katani) Project

A project taking place in Tanga, Morogoro, Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania. Sisal is the most important cash crop, used to produce yarns, ropes, carpets, clothing and composites, and sold to the domestic and international markets. Also sisal biomass can be converted to biogas used to run electricity generators which power production machinery, with excess electricity supplied to out-growers/smallholders homes, schools and hospitals hence the use of sisal waste for bio-energy is thus environmentally beneficial. Converting the waste to biogas increases the profit to farmers, since 80% of the plant mass is suitable for biogas production.

Sisal Planting and harvesting takes place all year so there is no element of seasonality to earnings.