Bulawayo company Green Afrique Technologies, which produces passion fruit, is now looking at producing the kiwano horned melon (amagaki/magaka) and dragon fruit. According to chief executive officer Anglistone Sibanda, the company had developed a network of over 100 farmers across the country, adding that the number keeps growing.
Sibanda: “The kiwano melon is native to southern Africa and common in Zimbabwe. According to Green Afrique Market studies, Kiwano melon is fetching between US$5-$7 each in the United States of America and about £3-£5 in the United Kingdom where it is imported from New Zealand and Australia. Companies that took it from southern Africa and registered it in New Zealand in 1944 started commercial farming of the fruit.”
Source: theindependent.co.zw