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By Bongiwe Mafuya
DEA
This was an interesting Green Business Mentorship session where the upcoming charcoal producers were picked their minds on charcoal production equipment just to find out if they're aware of what is expected and to find out if they've been working on preparations before they start, I then took the producers to imaginery charcoal production site set up for example the terrain , site assessment , kiln arrangement , biomass assessment and arrangement . The existing charcoal producers shared their struggles and successes with other producers . Participants seeme to be more interested on profit without actually looking at expenses you encure during production which I shared some with them .Most interesting was the fact that most of the producers have the clearing agreements .