Use DITF to compare your goods with others, Nagu advises firms
As the East African countries open their borders for the common market to starts today, the government has urged manufacturers to effectively use this year’s Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair to compare their products with those of their counterparts in a bid to learn from them.
The Minister for Trade, Industry and Marketing, Mary Nagu, said on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam that Tanzanian businessmen were in a better position to learn by comparing what they manufacture with what their colleagues from other EAC member countries taking part in the trade fair produce.
Nagu was hopeful that this year’s Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair would bring a positive impact on the country’s manufactured products in the EA Common Market.
“This is an exceptional trade fair as it is the last one before we enter the EA Common Market. Industrialists therefore have to keep a sharp eye in observing so that they could improve their products,” stressed Nagu.
She added that the manufactures must also learn from other countries such as SADC countries which would also take part in the trade fair.
“They have to learn from countries such as South Africa, which is technologically more advanced,” she said.
Also, the manufacturers would have the opportunity to extend the market of their products because the businesspersons who participate in the fair would be those who could order products from Tanzania.
Ever since the trade fair would also involve Asian countries of which many traders used to go to purchase commodities, it was a good opportunity to learn from them and improve so that traders would buy them in the country.
However, she called on the citizens to do away with the belief that their products were of low quality, and that instead, they had to start a new culture of buying their products from their own country.
By doing so, they would increase the market of commodities produced in their country and as a results the industries would grow and be a ready market for the agricultural sector.
She said the attitude of undermining their own goods was “just a bad perception” of some Tanzanians.
“Our products have good quality as they are certified by the Tanzania Bureau of Standard (TBS) which effectively evaluate them,” she said.
Commenting on the preparation of the trade fair, Dr Nagu said the venue was well arranged.
Contrary to the previous one, she said, this year’s trade fair is not likely to be congested because the number of counters have been increased.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
The Minister for Trade, Industry and Marketing, Mary Nagu, said on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam that Tanzanian businessmen were in a better position to learn by comparing what they manufacture with what their colleagues from other EAC member countries taking part in the trade fair produce.
Nagu was hopeful that this year’s Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair would bring a positive impact on the country’s manufactured products in the EA Common Market.
“This is an exceptional trade fair as it is the last one before we enter the EA Common Market. Industrialists therefore have to keep a sharp eye in observing so that they could improve their products,” stressed Nagu.
She added that the manufactures must also learn from other countries such as SADC countries which would also take part in the trade fair.
“They have to learn from countries such as South Africa, which is technologically more advanced,” she said.
Also, the manufacturers would have the opportunity to extend the market of their products because the businesspersons who participate in the fair would be those who could order products from Tanzania.
Ever since the trade fair would also involve Asian countries of which many traders used to go to purchase commodities, it was a good opportunity to learn from them and improve so that traders would buy them in the country.
However, she called on the citizens to do away with the belief that their products were of low quality, and that instead, they had to start a new culture of buying their products from their own country.
By doing so, they would increase the market of commodities produced in their country and as a results the industries would grow and be a ready market for the agricultural sector.
She said the attitude of undermining their own goods was “just a bad perception” of some Tanzanians.
“Our products have good quality as they are certified by the Tanzania Bureau of Standard (TBS) which effectively evaluate them,” she said.
Commenting on the preparation of the trade fair, Dr Nagu said the venue was well arranged.
Contrary to the previous one, she said, this year’s trade fair is not likely to be congested because the number of counters have been increased.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
