Tanzania: MP pushes Hai DC to come up with avocado oil processing plan

Published 2022년 5월 4일

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Tanzania's District Council Chairman, Edmund Rutaraka, is advocating for small-scale oil processing plants, particularly from avocados, due to rising fuel prices. This comes as four youth groups, one women's group, and five disabled individuals receive a total of 93 million Tanzanian Shillings in loans from the Member of Parliament, Mafuwe, for various projects, including transportation, honey purchase and sale, milk processing, poultry, cattle, goats, and flower pot manufacturing. Mafuwe also suggested an apricot packing factory and the acquisition of an avocado processing machine in Hai, aiming to boost the local economy and benefit many people. However, the Community Development Officer, Amina Masood, highlighted issues of loan repayment due to misconceptions about government money and interference by political leaders.

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For every 10 tonnes of sliced apricot, some small entrepreneurs working on the project get 500 liters of oil and each liter sells for 35,000/- and a small bottle of 330 millimeters, sells for 20,000/-. Mafuwe, directed the Council to come up with the investment, when he went yesterday to hand over loans worth 93m/- to four youth groups, one group of women and five people with disabilities. In the loans, there are 40 beneficiaries who carry out transportation projects using bodabodas, the purchase and sale of honey, milk processing, poultry, cattle, goats and the manufacture of flower pots. "We have started at this stage of lending this amount, the one who got a large amount got 20 million, but I would really like to have big groups that can get a big loan. If we get the avocado processing machine here in Hai, we’ll have a better economy, and we’ll have touched a lot of people,” he said. He added: “If we could build an apricot packing factory here, we would have touched the lives ...

Source: IPPMedia