TANZANIA Breweries Limited
TANZANIA
Breweries Limited will invest 27bn/- to support farmers to boost
production of local raw materials for beer, wine and spirits making.
TBL
Managing Director, Robert Jarrin said here last week that the funds
would help barley, grapes, sorghum and maize farmers to increase their
production of local materials for the beer making company which will in
turn boost their growth.
He
said the farmers would be provided with seeds, extension services as
well as facilitating them with access to credits from a number of banks
including CRDB, National Microfinance Bank (NMB) and Bank of Africa
(BOA).
He
said his company would continue to support the development of the
commercial farming of barley, sorghum and maize crops in the country.
“Barley farming is a source of livehood for more than 3,000 farmers in
rural Tanzania.
Barley
is converted into malt, a key ingredient in the manufacturing of beer
which is enough to met most of TBL group’s requirement for its Arusha
and Mwanza breweries,” he said.
Mr
Jarrin also said his company contributed 384bn/- to the government’s
revenue in 2015. “TBL group is the country’s largest taxpayer having
contributed 2.3tri/- in taxes to the government over the past ten years.
Our
group contribution to the development of Tanzania through the
collection and payment of tax continues to be recognized by various
stakeholders in the country through the collection and payment of tax
accolades accorded to us by Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) over the
past four consecutive years”, he said.
The
company has large scales manufacturing plants in Tanzania in Mwanza,
Mbeya, Arusha and Dar-es-Salaam which rank among the best in SAB
Miller’s African operations. TBL Mwanza and Mbeya brewing plants feature
among the top 10 and 15 breweries in the world.
Mr
Jarrin also said the company’s beer business has a 78 per cent market
share of the formal beer market which is primarily driven by Safari,
Kilimanjaro, Ndovu, Castle Lager and Castle lite brands while company’s
leading spirits and wines are Konyagi, Valeur and Dodoma wine.
On
the other hand, Mr Jarrin said the beer business has stagnated due to
affordability as majority of Tanzanians earn low income. The business
has also stagnated due to prevalence of a large informal alcohol market
and lack of incentives that encourage local production of key raw
materials such as malt.
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