Sales revenue for Uganda’s value-added banana products marketed under the brand name Tooke have hit the UGX1 billion mark in sales locally, the Banana Industrial Research and Development Center (BIRDIC) the agency spearheading the enterprise, has announced. Buoyed by this milestone, BIRDIC is now looking to push the production capacity of Tooke flour from 1.4MT daily to 10 MT in order to meet the demand of growing local, regional and international markets in the next five years. The Director General of the Banana Industrial Research and Development Center Rev. Prof Florence Isabiriye Muranga confirmed that the Tooke…
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