Tanzania to build Sh3 billion avocado processing plants

Tanzania currently earns at least $12 million annually in avocado exports. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  Dickson Ng’hily

Mwananchi Web Editor

Mwananchi Communications Limited

What you need to know:

  • It is estimated that some 39,000 tonnes of the fruit are produced locally, but only between 8,500 and 9,000 tonnes were exported last year
  • With a lack of processing capacity, some of the fruits rot before they are consumed or exported

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