Empowering horticultural companies on sustainability: an energy audit for the Tanzanian company Africado Ltd.
- 17/04/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
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Empowering horticultural companies on sustainability: an energy audit for the Tanzanian company Africado Ltd. In a world where environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly important, organizations are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and operate more efficiently. One initiative is to conduct energy audits to ensure sustainability and efficiency by determining and documenting energy usage, providing estimates of energy savings from alternatives, and focusing on the use of alternative energy. Africado Ltd, one of the leading Tanzanian exporters… +Tanzanian Horticultural companies trained in Food Safety Management
- 05/09/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Corp EN
The Fit for Market Plus programme recently organised a four-day collective training session on “Principles of Food Safety Quality Management System and Traceability” in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, specifically in Njombe, from the 22 to 25 August 2023. This training aimed to enhance the skill and capacities of the technical and compliance staff of horticultural companies, including farm managers, agronomists, production managers, harvesting managers, processing and packaging managers and quality and traceability managers in Food Safety Quality Management System… +Tanzania: Avocado commercial fruit quality collective training
- 30/03/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Tanzania
The Fit for Market Plus programme recently held a collective training session in Njombe, from 21st-24th March 2023, on “Avocado Commercial Fruit Quality: Good Harvest and Post-Harvest Practices.” This training aimed to enhance the capacity of twenty-three technical and extension staff, and agronomists responsible for avocado quality control in different exporting companies in Tanzania. The training covered avocado characteristics, nursery establishment, avocado maturity testing, harvesting, transport, packhouse operations, market requirements, and other relevant topics during two sessions: theoretical and practical.… +Tanzania: Zanzibar’s producers get trained in accounting
- 03/03/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Tanzania
As part of COLEAD’s Fit For Market SPS programme, a training on “Bookkeeping and Cost-Benefit Calculations” was organised for Zanzibar Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (UWAMWIMA) in October 2022, at their premises on Zanzibar Island. UWAMWIMA is an association of smallholder producers from the horticultural sector in Zanzibar. The association was established in 2004 and counts over 2,000 smallholder producers as members. The smallholder producers are involved in the production of watermelon, tomatoes, pineapple, okra, papaya, cucumber, eggplant, green pepper,… +Taking the time to Connect, Listen and Observe
- 01/03/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Tanzania
BIOFACH was a great opportunity for COLEAD to connect with our partners-beneficiaries. Joyce Kamugisha from JJ Agro Growers Ltd., Tanzania, shared that the knowledge she gained from the training on “Access to market” was extremely valuable. Joyce shared the three key messages with us: Start from where you are – opportunities are in front of you Look at your local market – test your product locally Three words international clients want to hear from you before doing any business: sustainability,… +