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Drink more milk, Tanzanians advised
2005-07-29 08:12:32
By Felix Andrew
Tanzanians should drink more milk in order to improve their health, the Sales and Marketing Manager of the Royal Dairy Products Limited, Yusuf Ghor, has said in Dar es Salaam.
Speaking during the handing over of about 1,000 packets of fresh milk to the pupils of Ubungo National House Corporation primary school in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, Ghor said Tanzanians did not drink enough milk.
As a way to increase sales, the company had launched a campaign of distributing milk to some primary schools in Dar es Salaam, he said.
’Tanzanians do not drink milk as much as Kenyans and Ugandans,’ Ghor said.
Governments in Kenya and Uganda had put in place strategies that ensured that their citizens drank milk at least three times a week.
’We must emulate such an example,’ he said.
Ghor said that as businessmen their company was processing high quality milk and selling it at affordable prices.
Once people understood the importance of drinking milk their health would improve and the income for farmers and businessmen would also increase, he said.
Currently the prices of the milk varied from 80/- for a 180-ml packet to 350/- for a half-litre packet.
During the campaign the company would be distributing milk free of charge to some primary schools in Dar es Salaam.
More than 20,000 packets of fresh milk worth 1.5m/ would be sent to those schools at the end of the campaign, he said.
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