Burundi

(Presented by Vincens Burow Lydia – Feb 2018) My name is VINCENS Burow Lydia. I am a Burundian, Manager of MOTHER NATURE PRODUCTS.    (In these photos I am with AMH’s President, Professor Robert Tchitnga, who visited Burundi in January.) Traditionally in the Kings’ era, Burundians ate vitamin-rich sorghum pulp (crushed with its bark), but because of the low yield of this food, Burundians subsequently kept their food habits, making use of maize and cassava pills which have a higher yield per hectare (ha), but, low nutritional values (white flours). Mr Albert Mbonerane (former Minister of Environment and territory Planning) is behind the official and massive introduction of the Moringa Oleifera Tree in Burundi. It is mainly through its association called…