Tanzania: MP pushes Hai DC to come up with avocado oil processing plan
Avocado Oil
Value Added Apricot
Tanzania
Published May 5, 2022
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HAI MP, Saashisha Mafuwe has called on the district council to come up with a specific plan for a major investment in the Avocado oil processing plant, which will touch the lives of many farmers as well as help the nation cope with the problem of oil shortages.
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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 ...
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