Tanzania: Longido comes with a treatment of 5bn / – Meat

By Deus Ngowi Recently in Longido

The LONGIDO District Council is on the right track in the industrialization program since it started the construction of an industrial plant of more than 5bn / – to double as an abattoir and a meat processing plant.

President John Magufuli explains that each region should set up at least 100 new industries in December 2012.

Longido District Executive Director (DED), Mr. Juma Mhina, recently unveiled at Longido that Factory would be able to slaughter and treat 3,000 head of cattle a day.

million. Mhina said that the factory already under construction would be very useful to breeders as well as to customers, as the former would stop bringing their livestock to neighbors.

He revealed that farmers were carrying about 1,800 cattle every day in Kenya. The DED said that the district with a huge wealth of livestock would see the added value of their goods before export.

About 90 percent of district residents are shepherds, with more than 844,000 head of cattle in the district.

Authorities are of the opinion that livestock is well maintained to ensure productivity, the goal being to ensure that pastoralists change their standard of living, get out of poverty by the end of the year. economic emancipation.

He adds that the neighboring areas such as Manyara, Shinyanga, Simiyu and Singida

M. Mhina unveiled that pastoralists continue to go to Kenya because they have access to three meat processing industries.

He says the ranchers of Longido and Ngorongoro districts As other areas in Tanzania are taking a lot of cattle to the East African country, thus improving his economy.

He said that by a huge percentage the trio was fed by cattle from Tanzania and that the decision of its district council to build such an industry would be a buy-out for Tanzanians who would begin to appreciate the valuation process of their cattle in their own country.

He said that it is estimated that the factory built by the council with the support of the central government would provide 130 employment opportunities and initiate meat export business.

million. Mhina unveiled that the plant is expected to be completed in December this year and that the following month the district Council coffers would receive at least 1.5 billion / year from the industry.

He said that this would strengthen the council's ability to improve social services and the lives of its people.