Gazini, The Cooperative’s Operations Have Been Slightly Derailed

Due to the excessive rains persisting in Gazini, the Cooperative’s operations have been slightly derailed, as they can only work when the rains subside. However, during February, they managed to continue harvesting the chilli crop, and they currently have just under 3 tonnes ready to be sold off. We sadly anticipate a slight drop in the total volumes of the chilli crop, as the Cooperative continue to lose this to the persistent rains alluded to earlier. However, we will be looking at a possible harvest of the honey in a few weeks’ time, which will aggregate their income from the chilli sales. We are also in the process of setting up additional new hives around the agricultural plot, which will then be populated with hives in order to reinforce the human-elephant conflict resolution aspect of this project.