Tanzania: TARI intensifies wine producing technologies

The timely technological advancement which focuses to enable home produced wine to penetrate and compete highly in the world market has already saw importation of modern equipment to be installed at the Makutupora Centre’s laboratory. According to Felista Mpore, the research officer at the department of Crop Innovation and Post-Harvest Management at TARI Makutupora Centre, the digital equipment had already arrived in the country from France, Italy and South Africa. "Among others, the prime target is to ensure for professional additional value chain for grape products, but also, to scale-up conduction of diverse wine research and trainings," she informed. She named the 200million/- worth facilitate as wine tank with capacity to absorb up to 10,000 litters, basket press, a crusher machine, a digital abulliometer for measuring wine quality, screw capping machine and wine pump. Others are digital PH meter, digital fractometer and a special wine cooling unit. “The envisaged lab is ...