date:Jul 17, 2014
miles) east of Kinshasa.
The government hopes foreign and local farmers there will produce a range of vegetables - including corn, beans and cassava - as well as meat and fish to be mainly sold in Kinshasa, which is home to some 10 million people.
The government has spent $83 million setting up Bukanga Lonzo, where South African firm Mozfood Energy carried out feasibility studies and a South African consortium called Africom has been handed the management contract.
President Joseph Kabila ha