{"id":25118,"date":"2021-03-16T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=25118"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:09:53","slug":"kilombero-sugar-planning-584bn-factory-expansion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/kilombero-sugar-planning-584bn-factory-expansion-2","title":{"rendered":"Kilombero Sugar planning 584bn\/- factory expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> KILOMBERO Sugar factory in Morogoro Region expects to spend more than 584bn\/- for the factory expansion, the work of which would begin May this year and would take two years and three months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>The factory that has been providing economic benefits to small sugar cane farmers has of now 66,000 such farmers enabling the factory to produce between 550,000 to 600,000 tonnes of sugar per year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018\/2019 season alone the factory produced 629,000 tonnes valued at 65bn\/-.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the visit at the factory at the weekend by Tanzania Investment Centre\u2019s (TIC) Managing Director Dr Maduhu Kazi, the Kilombero Sugar Company managing Director Guy Williams said the aim for the expansion was to increase the country\u2019s sugar production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpansion work is expected to take two years and three months to complete beginning May this year as soon as we obtain the building permit, and in the new factory we plan to generate 10MW extra electricity that would go into the national power grid. It will be the biggest sugar factory in East Africa,\u201d said Guy Williams.<\/p>\n<p>He told Dr Kazi about challenges they have been facing, but said these have to be solved before they finalise expansion work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said earlier, the implementation of this project is an issue that entails cooperation, and we shall do our best in so far as our position would allow, will provide that cooperation within the existing procedures,\u201d said Dr kazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: KILOMBERO Sugar factory in Morogoro Region expects to spend more than 584bn\/- for the factory expansion, the work of which would begin May this year and would take two years and three months to complete. 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