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| Fisherman at lake Tanganyika |
Vice President Dr Gharib Bilal, opened a fish market at Kasanga village
in Sumbawanga Rural District, Rukwa Region at the weekend where he promised to
have the facility connected with power from nation grid soon.
Addressing a public rally during the occasion, the Vice President,
pleaded to users of the market to effectively utilise the lake-side
infrastructure so as to improve their businesses and change their life from
poverty to prosperity.
Besides facilitating electricity connection to the market, he also
promised construction of cold rooms in the area.
“I have heard your cry; there is a need for power connection here to
enable you to preserve fresh fish. I want to assure you that I am going to work
on that,” he said.
Located on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Kasanga market was built in
partnership between a farmers’ network (Mviwata) and a French organisation
(GRET) at the cost of over 802.4m/-. It can serve at least 50,000 people at
once.
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| Dr Bilali |
The construction was part of the major project on wholesale food crop
markets development in Rukwa and Mbeya regions which have under implementation
since 2010.
Other markets being built under the project are Matai maize market
located in Sumbawanga municipality and Igurusi rice market located in Mbarali
District, Mbeya Region.
Funded by the European Commission under its Food Facility Call for
Proposals, the markets aim at improving market access to food crops and target
rice and maize and partly fish production in Southern Highlands regions.
Mviwata Executive Director Stephen Ruvuga, said the Kasanga market will
serve more than 53, 000 fishermen and businesswomen.
The structure comprises of the market itself and the storage building
for dry fish, fish drying areas and offices.
“The premises will allow fisher folks to weigh and sell their captures
to traders (mostly women traders) on a clean area,” he said.
Mviwata has already built nine markets in rural areas. They include
Kibaigwa, Nyandira, Tawa, Tandai, Igagala and Mkata and the new markets of
Igurusi, Matai and Kasanga.
Source: The Guardian,www.ippmedia.com
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