By Hilda Mhagama
PRIME Minister
Kassim Majaliwa is on Friday expected to flag off the 44th Dar es Salaam
International Trade Fair (DITF) that
opened its doors on Wednesday.
Minister for
Industries, Trade and Investment, Innocent Bashungwa told reporters at
Mwalimu Nyerere grounds along Kilwa road in Dar es Salaam that the PM is
expected to launch the fair that has 2,880 companies, where 2,835 are
local companies and 43 being international ones.
In his yesterday
speech, he said this year's exhibition will observe all guidelines
issued by health authorities to protect exhibitors and visitors against
Covid-19.
"As we have been
declared as a middle-income country the DIFT focus is on agro-processing
for sustainable development to deepen agriculture, livestock,
fisheries, and small scale entrepreneurship," he noted.
Mr Bashungwa
described DITF as an important forum for the business community in the
country to market their products and strike into joint ventures with
other foreign companies.
He said this year's
exhibition themed 'Industrial Economy for Employment and Sustainable
Trade', and the 44th DITF has introduced business-to-business virtual
meetings to avoid mass gatherings.
According to the
Minister visitors and exhibitors to the 44th DITF can also access the
trade fair through live streaming and virtual exhibition.
Products exhibited
at the trade fair include food and beverages, textiles, garments and
yarns, manufacturing equipment, and building materials.
Others are
automobiles, electrical articles, chemicals and cosmetics, timber and
furniture, engineering products, machinery, information technology, and
agricultural products.
On the use of
Tanzania Mercantile Exchange (TMX), he said in the future the trade fair
will be using such a platform to reach many people at once in the
world. TMX is the first commodity exchange in Tanzania.
The exchange is
established as a platform where farmers, traders, exporters, and other
various market actors are able to access the domestic and global market
and obtain a fair price in selling or buying of commodities.
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