Tandika area is the only place in Tanzania if not in all East African where there existing a concentration of small sized garmets and tailoring activities, which could be raised to acquired the needed economices of scale in the garmet sector in Tanzania. What is needed to be done is for the targeted intervention by introducing modern and coordinated management and linking these small tailors to the textile manufacturers like Karibu, Nida and others.
Tandika has more than 2000 small tailors undertaking tailoring activities saving Dar Es Salaam area, regions and even neighbouring countries like Malawi and Zambia where traders come to Tandika to buy clothes for schools and other purposes. Such a concentration if well managed and linked to textile industries in Dar Es Salaam can be able to increasing garmets and clothes production in Tanzania and even save the USA market under AGOA.
These small entities can be enabled to access loans from the banks in order to increase their capital and be trained to increase standadrs of the clothes they make. Such a concentration was well utilised in Bangaladesh, and now Bangaladesh is leading country in clothes and garmets production among the developing countries.
If this was successful in Bangaladesh why not in Tanzania? and already we have a place to start, which is Tandika. Yes we can let us start!
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