Mutoko

Mutoko, also Mtoko, is a 1,300 m high place, with about 5,000 inhabitants and a district with 125,000 inhabitants ( 2006) in the province of Mashonaland East in Zimbabwe.

A village for nearly 200 orphans was built by different organizations. The AIDS rate among pregnant women is 25%, making it the highest in the country. The well -developed traffic and highway from Harare to Blantyre, which runs through the town and is regularly flooded during the rainy season the river Mvinzi, takes its toll. Since the border post Nyamapanda is not far, of which the problems to here.

Mutoko is situated in a rural and sparsely populated area. In a mine, aquamarine, Goschenit be (see: gemstone ), cassiterite, coltan and kyanite (tantalum ) won. In 1990, a tree nursery project 38,000 trees pulled and planted. The slowly available. There are reflections on a fruit tree culture. An ongoing project wins vegetable oil from Jiri mono- bush ( Jatropha curcas ), which is planted in Mutoko traditionally as a hedge. The oil is used as fuel (biodiesel ) as well as the basis of the production of soap and alternative fertilizer.

Mutoko has a 1100 m long and 18 m wide paved runway that is militarily kept as a reserve, and an infamous prison for political prisoners, primary and secondary school, which was equipped by a Canadian project with computers and internet access, but lack the extensive connectivity to the electricity grid.