This was revealed on Thursday in Dar es
Salaam by entrepreneurs in a press conference ahead of the GS1 (TZ)
National Limited stakeholders meeting to be graced by Prime Minister
Mizengo Pinda on Wednesday next week that will deliberate on five years
strategic plan.
Ms Mlowe added, “The mounting demand has
turned my concentration to increase supply and stop going to
exhibitions to display my products.”
Apart from supermarkets, Ms Mlowe
said her goods were currently found in various small scale retail
outlets in Dar es Salaam and other major urban centres.
She urged other small scale
entrepreneurs to use barcode technology because it will yield premium
returns.
On her part, Ms Mpalley Mwaipola from Funguka Spices said the
use of traceability standards has led to increased demand from both
local and foreign markets, the situation which is tasking them to
produce in huge quantities.
The GS1 (T) Chief Executive Officer, Ms
Fatma Kange, said 18 months after introducing the barcode technology
more than 360 companies have adopted it with almost 6,000 varieties of
goods in circulation.
She said insufficient finance to reach small,
medium and large scale manufacturers across the country has remained to
be the challenge.
For example, a total of 763.7m/- is
needed in the first year of the implementations of the strategic plan
for market campaigns of the barcode system to both urban and rural
areas.
Source: The Daily News, www.dailynews.co.tz, reported by Sebastian Mrindoko in Dar es Salaam
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