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21st
April 2008
TBS appointed cotton centre for East,
Central Africa
The Tanzania Bureau of Standard (TBS)
has been appointed centre for regional
technical services under Commercial
Standardization of Instrument Testing of
Cotton (CSITC) Project.
Speaking during the opening of the
awareness workshop on CSITC at
Kilimanjaro Kempisk Hotel in Dar es
Salaam on Friday, April 18, 2008, the
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of
Industry, Trade and Marketing Dr.
Stergomena L. Tax said that the project
will benefit the cotton producing
countries at large.
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Delegates pose for
group photo after the Commercial Standardization
of Instrument Testing of Cotton (CSITC) Project
workshop held at Kilimanjaro Kempisk Hotel in
Dar es Salaam on Friday, April 18, 2008. During
the workshop, TBS was announced CSITC Regional
Technical Centre for East and Central Africa. |
The
centre will cater for Tanzania, Uganda,
Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The project aims at assisting the cotton
producing countries, especially the
developing countries to meet the
emerging quality assessment demands of
the cotton market so as to strengthen or
at least maintain their competitive
position in the world market.
Apart from Tanzania, Dr. Tax said,
another Regional Technical Centre will
be in Mali, West Africa. The centres are
expected to perform instrumental testing
of cotton from the region before it is
exported to the international markets.
Dr. Tax advised TBS to use that
opportunity effectively so as to enable
the stakeholders in the cotton industry
to benefit from the project. The project
will enable the cotton producing
countries especially the developing ones
to sell their cotton based on reliable
and comparable test results.
The one day workshop was attended by
participants from Mozambique, South
Africa, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Zambia,
Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Germany.
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