In Lufa district - Eastern Highlands province – parties are trying to revive widespread mushroom cultivation, downstream production and commercialization. Minister for Environment Conservation and Climate Change and MP for Lufa, Simo Kilepa: "As part of our master Five-Year Development Plan, mushroom is one of our hero cash crops (apart from coffee).”
Although interest in mushroom cultivation already started in 1997, the district, despite the existence of 18 cooperatives, has not realized its full potential or entered mass production after continuous government counter-funding of the project. Kilepa said: "For a very long time, this project has been parked under provincial functions, and only a few have been benefiting using the name - Lufa Mushroom. Its time we take it back and implement what belongs to the people after 25 years".
Source: looppng.com