By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
Sometimes our activities can have unexpected, exciting consequences.
We have been planting Moringa oleifera for quite a few years in our villages. Since 2017 we have exponentially expanded this activity with the support from our teachers and our paramedic. Our paramedic told us, he now personally adds it to his diet daily, since it is literally growing across from his front door at our CARMMA health center.
You may be familiar with our Moringa activities, since we have posted about it on GlobalGiving and our website.
Much to our delight, since we started posting about Moringa we get an email our two almost every month inquiring about Moringa. Some just want to know if it grows well and what we have done to successfully introduce it. Some local NGOs are requesting a more formal partnership and one is actually meeting our team in Antananarivo tomorrow, on February 26.
Of great interest from a microcredit perspective is: some actually want to buy seeds, or the dried leaves from us. While Moringa at the moment is first in for most an important nutritional supplement for us, these inquiries illustrate that there is a huge potential, also is an economic crop, for growing and consuming Moringa in Madagascar. As a very fast growing tree, this is a very feasible crop for generating additional income in the near future.
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