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  • Does Tanzania have a potential in the sunflower oil sector?
  • Tanzania has great potential in the sunflower oil seeds sector, which can be scaled-up as one of its key sectors for industrial development.
  • How can Unido improve the sunflower oil industry?
  • According to Julius Mjelwa, Acting Director of Research Market, Planning and Development at VETA, more research will help improve the machines that are being used to upgrade the sunflower oil sector. “With the technical services provided by UNIDO, these small businesses have more capacity for production and storage, and better market access.
  • Which country produces sunflower oil?
  • Tanzania is one country among others in the world producing sunflower oilseeds for raw materials in processing cholesterol-free edible cooking oil with a by-product used as livestock feeds. Currently sunflower oil makes about 13% of the world edible oil production.
  • How many bags of sunflower oil a day does RLDC process?
  • In 2007, the RLDC business partner in Kiteto started to run a sunflower oil processing plant in Kibaya. The partner processes 40-50 bages of sunflower seeds per day, operating the plant 7-9 months per year, processing a total of 9,000-13,000 bags per year.
  • How much sunflower oil is produced a year?
  • While the production of sunflower oil seeds varying between 75,000 to 100,000 tons from year 2001 to 2005, it increased in the last two seasons dramatically to more than 350,000 tons since 2006 (Figure 1).
  • How much money does it take to start a sunflower processing business?
  • New entry to the processing business is relatively easy and requires only 15 - 20 million T. Shillings as the initial capital for processing capacity of 40 bags of sunflower a day to produce 80 liters of oil per day.