Expansion of Soroti Fruit Factory in the Offing

The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST), Ramathan Ggoobi has said plans are underway to expand and modernize Soroti Fruit Factory in partnership with a management firm from Ethiopia.

Ggoobi said the expansion project will cost about USD 30 million and will take a period of about two years to become operational once construction starts.

The PSST made the remarks while visiting Soroti Fruits Ltd, to assess the performance of the factory on the directive of H.E the President.

He was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Lynette Bagonza, Director Economic Affairs, Moses Kaggwa and Commissioners from both the Ministries of Finance and Trade.

The PSST said the factory is changing the destiny of the region in terms of processing and adding value. He thanked the partners from Ethiopia for helping Government to manage the factory more effectively and transforming it to become more successful.

The planned new factory will have advanced technology with an automatic bottling and packaging line, multi-fruit processing units, organic fertilizer and animal feeds production among others.