Fiery peri-peri would be among the crops planted to ward off attacks by wild animals on residents of Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, Radio Mozambique reported on Thursday.
The Agha Khan Foundation has donated more than $70 000 (about R500 000) for the cultivation of the crops.
They would be grown on 50 hectares of land which has already been procured in the districts of that province where elephants have killed residents and destroyed several hectares of crops.
More than 30 people had been killed in animal-human conflict throughout the country in the first six months of this year.
The strong taste of the peri-peri, one of the hottest chillis grown, is expected to discourage the animals from eating the crops and make them leave the area, and residents will also be able to sell the crops on the market.
Elephants, lions, hippopotamuses and crocodiles were among the top problem animals in the northern provinces of Mozambique, where most of the incidents occurred.
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