The road here
Tiko
Where it started
Joseph grew up on a farm in Tiko, in the Southwest. Every rainy season, the road to market turned into a river of mud. Trucks got stuck. Harvests rotted in storage.
Muyuka
The farmer he never forgot
Teaching in Muyuka, Joseph knew a cocoa farmer with a record harvest. The rains came early. The beans sat waiting for a truck that couldn't get through, and most of the crop spoiled. That year, the farmer's children didn't go back to school.
Connecticut
Learning to build a business
Joseph earned his MBA at the University of Connecticut. For a decade in the diaspora, he watched the same story repeat back home: roads washed out, villages cut off, crops lost.
Enzymes
Finding the answer
Asphalt costs too much for rural roads. Gravel washes away every year. Joseph found enzyme soil stabilization, which hardens the soil already there, and trained in it with SubStrata in the USA.
Olembe
Proving it on Cameroonian soil
The first field test ran on a road behind the bus station in Olembe, Yaoundé, using Perma-Zyme brought from the USA. Graders, water trucks and rollers, on local laterite.
Mutengene
Building Bio-Forge
With our partner Infinita Biotech of India, we're building Bio-Forge, our plant in Mutengene. We're molding the blocks for the building now. It opens before our first road, so every RHS road will use ECOENZYME-TERRAIN made here: local jobs, no waiting on finished imports, lower prices.
Today
Building across the country
Head office in Buea, regional teams in six regions, a contract with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, and our plant rising in Mutengene.
