Goat Breeding

In the communities around the Mine site, goats have traditionally been raised by families as a safe way of saving for a crisis.

As a consequence of the cyclone that hit the area in 2008, many livestock were lost. During consultations, the community proposed that KMAD include in its five year plan a project in goat breeding.

KMAD approached ADECOR to partner this project. ADECOR is a development association based in Nampula. KMAD is financing the project, while ADECOR is providing training and technical assistance to the groups involved and is also providing association development training to all KMAD’s associations and groups.

A technician moved to the area to work with the groups. The village of Nahaloco was chosen for the initial phase. After several meetings with the leaders and the community to discuss the project and introduce the technician, fifteen groups of five families were identified and trained in association development and animal husbandry. Every one understood clearly the scope of the project and that after 2 years each group had to pay back to the project the same amount of animals it received in order to expand the project to other groups in other villages under the same system and so forth.