Africa-Press – Tanzania. Ministry of Industry and Trade has advised Small Industries Development Organisation (SIDO) to expel tenants who failed to pay rent dues on time.
The Deputy Minister, Mr Exaudi Kigahe, said rent defaulters are back-pending SIDO efforts to empowering other small entrepreneurs to use the opportunities to set up factories.
“Tenants should pay rental fees on time or expelled… Get rid of them. Rent those who are ready to observe your rules and regulations,” said Mr Kigahe, when touring SIDO’s activities in Shinyanga during his one week working visit in Dodoma, Shinyanga, Geita and Mwanza.
Mr Kigahe reinstated the government promise to continue assisting SIDO to provide better services to SMEs and improve road, water and electricity infrastructure in industrial areas in Shinyanga as well as empower various entrepreneurs to attract investors and promote productive businesses.
He also appealed to the owners of the vegetable oil processing industry to start contract farming with oil seed farmers to enable them produce more and cut down challenge of shortage of raw materials.
The Deputy Minister and his delegation in Shinyanga visited Gilitu Enterprises, a sunflower and cottonseed seed processor, Katemi Group that processes maize flour and rice, and Kizumbi Food Trading Company producing maize flours.
Gilitu Makula, owner of Gilitu Enterprises, told the delegation that availability of raw material—sunflower and cotton seeds—remain a major challenge forcing them to operate at a quarter of their capacity.
Shinyanga Regional Acting Administrative Secretary, Bedavenerabilisy Chamatata said the region has 730 industries that employed 10,150 workers.
SIDO Director General, Prof Sylvester Mpanduji told the Deputy Minister that the region was one of the six centres in the country with state-of-the-art technology for producing machines in mass production.
SIDO Shinyanga provides a wide range of services including technical and technological development services, small rural industrial projects, training and consultant.
Other services are extension services, marketing and information with financial services for small entrepreneurs to develop the industrial and commercial sector hence contributed to economic growth.
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