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GENERAL TRADE.

Maize business areas in the Municipality

There is generally poor state of logistics and market infrastructure to support cargo aggregation, storage and distribution, sorting, packing/repacking, labelling and several other ancillary and miscellaneous services. This has narrowed the trade contribute to the structural transformation of cross border trade through:

  • Poor post-harvest handling technology
  • High reliance on low productivity informal trade that greatly target women who are the major players in the informal small-scale cross border trade.
  • Reduced export capability for selected sectors
  • Exporters’ non compliance to standards for regional and international markets.

Investment opportunities exist in the following.

Developing logistics and market infrastructure along with required regulatory interventions which shall make trade and logistics from the region more efficient, reducing costs and increasing trade volumes. The infrastructure can include

  • Value-addition facilities.
  • Storage (silos and cold warehouses).
  • Packaging and third-party logistics services.
  • Show rooms.
  • Sorting facilities.
  • Inland container deport.
  • ICT facilities for BPO.