Protecting the environment is a commendable practice resulting from a major awareness-raising campaign among palm oil production units, which are increasingly committed to this good practice. This is the case of Mr. Gérard Ndikuriyo's production unit in Kanyenkoko in Rumonge commune where wastewater is transformed into fertilizer.

According to the agricultural director at the Palm Oil Office (OHP) Christian Nimubona, the campaign to raise awareness among palm oil production units to protect the environment has borne fruit. Of the approximately 440 improved artisanal production units, only about twenty would still lag behind in environmental protection.

The owners of these production units understood that not only must the environment be protected, especially Lake Tanganyika, but also that effluents, i.e. wastewater recovered after palm oil extraction, must be made profitable.

While before this awareness-raising campaign, the wastewater leaving the palm oil production units was sent into Lake Tanganyika and polluted it, today these effluents are recovered in sedimentation tanks, a few months later they are transformed into organic manure, which is very much appreciated by farmers.