A GRAPE processing plant that is capable of supplying bulk wine to other factories across the country is set to be constructed at Chinangali Two village in Buigiri Ward, Chamwino District.
Chamwino District Executive Director
Athumani Masasi told The ‘Daily News’ here yesterday that the project
was designed to start early in October, and would cost 20bn/-, and
construction works are slated for completion early next year.
“Grape growers will soon benefit from
reliable market of grape, thanks to the first grape processing industry
in the country which will also create over 1,000 employments,” the DED
says.
Mr Masasi said the factory would help
uplift incomes of fledging grape growers in Chamwino in particular and
Dodoma in general, adding that the factory would also help increase
revenue collection within the District.
Dodoma is the country’s main grape
growing region in Tanzania, second largest producer of the cash crop
after South Africa within sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr Masasi pointed out Chamwino District
Council has teamed up with GEPF, Workers Compensation Fund and Tanzania
Investment Bank to carry out the project after signing Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the public institutions last March.
“Consultants from Archquant Services
Limited are currently reviewing a business plan,” he said, adding “The
project will be executed in three phrases which will include
installation of a processing plants in last phase,”
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