Teriya Bugu is also a well diversified farm.
During your stay, you can discover many of our activities:
AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES |
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ORCHARDS |
HONEY |
VEGETABLES |
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| Mangos, citrus and banana Are mainly produced for our own needs and the surpluses are sold on local markets or go to local tradesmen. | 2 beekeepers take care of 140 hives. The bees produce excellent honey from eucalyptus and is sold all the way to Bamako. | A vegetable garden allows us to produce several variety of vegetables that we use in our restaurant. |
SMALL BREEDINGS |
FORESTRY |
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| Rabbits, hens, ducks, turkeys : Teriya Bugu’s farm provides our restaurant with many products. | We farm a forest of more than 200 000 eucalyptus which started 20 years ago. Each year we plant some more. | |
THE MINI-ZOO |
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MONKEYS |
DROMEDARIES (CAMEL) |
SNAKES |
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| Monkeys, dromedaries and many other animals like the crowned cranes, donkeys, horse, crocodile, tortoises, peacocks... are present in our zoo.
The children keep asking for more! |
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RENEWABLE ENERGY |
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SOLAR PANEL |
BIOGAS |
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| Pioneer in solar energy in West Africa, Father Verspieren installed a number of solar panels to run water pumps for irrigation. | “Transpaille” is a technology which produces methane through the fermentation of animal feces and dried vegetal compost. Our two tanks can store 25m3 of gas per day. |
SOLAR HOT-WATER |
BIOFUEL |
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| We also use solar energy to warm water whith specific solar hot-water system. | We are starting a new program to use vegetable oil as biofuel. We are currently using coton oil mixed with gazoil and we are moving toward using 100 % pure vegetable oil from jatropha plant that we are now cultivating. |