First Agritech fair kicks off Monday

Agritech East Africa Agricultural exhibition is staging to attract some 100 exhibitors to showcase their products in a three-day event to be held in Dar es Salaam next Monday.

The Agritech fair, the first with global touch, aims at sharing knowledge on agricultural products including the producing and packaging of food products using advanced technology.

According to the organiser, Thomas James, they envisage that some 5000 stakeholders and other viewers to visit pavilions of exhibitors from Italy, India, UK, Nigeria and Tanzania in the three-day fair.

He said the fair is staged in the country due to its geographic location since Dar port is the gateway of various land-linked countries.

The exhibitors will showcase some agri-related equipment, machinery, and also a side-line for agri meetings.

Also, the show will bring together various agricultural experts who will share advanced agricultural knowledge at this age of digital technology application in the sector.

The fair is organised in collaboration with the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF), Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce (TWCC), Tanzania Chamber of Commerce (TCCIA), Agriculture Council of Tanzania (ACT), Tanzania Industries (CTI), and TANEXA Rice Council of Tanzania (RCT).

Also those who played a key part were Tanzania government through the Ministry for Agriculture as well as the High Commission of India in XXX, the Tanzania Trade Development Authority (Tantrade) and other development partners.

Tantrade Executive Director, Mohammed Tajiri, promised to work closely with the Agritech event organisers in making the exhibition successful as the first time the country to have a large international agricultural exhibition.

TWCC representative Cresensia Mbunda challenged women entrepreneurs to visit the fair to acquire knowledge on better methods of producing better package materials.