There will be two slaughterhouses that the Italian company Cogemat will build in Zanzibar, Tanzania, by virtue of an agreement signed in recent days in Stone Town. According to information collected by InfoAfrica, the memorandum of understanding signed by Cogemat and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Zanzibar provides for the turnkey construction of two Halal-certified slaughterhouses with a total value of 29 million euros.
Each plant will allow the slaughter of 200 cattle and over 500 sheep and goats per day, as well as the deboning and vacuum packaging of the meat produced.
The negotiation and signing of the parties’ commitment was supported by the law firm Bergs & More and by the two relevant Embassies, in particular by the Tanzanian Ambassador to Italy, Mahmood Kombo, and by the Italian Ambassador to Tanzania, Marco Lombardi.
Within a few months the details of the project will be defined and the commercial and financial closing of the operation will be carried out.
The project, very important for the island of Zanzibar, aims to bring about a radical change in the slaughtering of meat, also ensuring full compliance with European standards. As Ambassador Kombo highlighted, this will make the finished product compatible with the standards required by the international hotel chains present on the island. Furthermore, the new plants will guarantee the population a higher quality product than those available at the moment.
The plants will be closed cycle and extremely respectful of the environment, thanks to the reuse of all slaughter waste through specific transformation treatments into industrial fat, flours for livestock or fish feed, fertilizers.
“The technological contribution provided by the new slaughterhouses – underlines Rita Ricciardi, Founding Partner of Bergs & More – will contribute to reducing polluting agents in slaughter and will therefore also be in line with the ESG issues relating to environmental protection, and will bring solutions that safeguard human health”.
The agreement is one of the first fruits of the third Tanzania-Italy Business Forum organized by the Embassy of Tanzania in Italy last 19 October in Milan and which brought together hundreds of Italian and Tanzanian companies. [Da Redazione InfoAfrica]
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