UNU-FTP and Matis hold short course in Tanzania
This week, the UNU-FTP in cooperation with Matis and the Tanzanian Fisheries Education and Training Agency (FETA) are holding a short course on fish drying and smoking in Bagamoya, Tanzania.
The objective of the course is to introduce a new method of smoking and drying of fish which preserves quality better compared to traditional methods This will be done by the use of a dual purpose unit which can be used both as a drying chamber and a smoke hut. The advantage of the design of the unit is that during the rainy season it‘s easy to change from drying to a smoking and through better control of the smoke it will use much less firewood then the traditional methods.
The course was developed by experts from Matís, an Icelandic Food Research institute, Fisheries Education and Training Agency (FETA) and the Tanzanian Ministry of Livestocks and Fisheries Development with financial support from the United Nations University-Fisheries Training Programme.
The course length was 6 days from Monday to Saturday. The total number of participants was twenty five, 15 men and 10 women and they came from Coast region (Bagamoyo, Mafia, Mkuranga, Rufiji), Dar es Salaam (Itala, Tekeke, Kinondoni), Lindi (Kilwa, Lindi Urban, Lindi Urban), Mtwara (Mtwara Rural, Mtwara Urban), Tanga (Pangani, Muheza, Tanga city), DSM-HQ (DSM), FETA-Mgegani campus (Bagamoyo), Natinal FQ Laboratory (Mwanza).
We are fortunate that several former fellows were able to help us develop and participate in this course. We extend warm thanks to them for their involvement:
- Lilian Ibengwe, Tanzanian Ministry of Livestocks and Fisheries Development, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Fellow 2010)
- Arnold Eleuter Mbunda, FETA, Bagamoya, Tanzania (Fellow 2012)
- Ofred Jonas Mlemile Mhongole,National FQ Laboratory,Mwanza, Tanzania (Fellow 2005)
- Minh Van Nguyen, Nha Trang University-Vietnam (Fellow 2007)
- Elizete Da Piedade Mucuada António Cunguara, IDPPE, Mozambique (Fellow 2013)
- Upendo Mwaisunga Hamidu, Tanzanian Ministry of Livestocks and Fisheries Development Dar es Saalam,Tanzania (Fellow 2012)