RougeCongo aims to produce sustainable palm oil that will be consumed locally and made with respect for humans, communities, and the environment. Its economic viability will ensure its sustainability and replicability. It will contribute to solving recurrent problems in the Kimpese region and the DRC: recurrent shortages of palm oil, lack of well-paid jobs, low energy availability, and the difficulty of farmers to valorize their production. Between the giant single-crop plantation and the small artisanal oil mill, new models of production of this oil, meeting high social and environmental requirements, are to be invented. RougeCongo is responding to this challenge in the following way:
Palm oil has the best yield per hectare, more than four times than any other vegetable oil.
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In 2014 they founded JauneCongo, a social agricultural enterprise which produces fruits and vegetables at the Kapangu 34ha agroecological farm 15 km from Kimpese and distributes them in Kinshasa.
More than 1400 direct and indirect jobs created by 2035
1,000 tons of oil produced per year by 2030, covering the needs of more than 100,000 people in DRC
17 million dollars of income generated for workers and planters by 2037
1'000 hectares of palm groves planted by 2027 by more than one hundred planters
40'000 tons of carbon captured by these palm groves by 2045
