KENYA EPZ TO HELP LOCALS EXPORTS THEIR GOODS
Posted by African Press International on October 13, 2010
By Agwanda Jowi
Kenya Export Processing Zones have embarked on a programme to help locals in Nyanza province to cheaply export their goods.
EPZ Chief Executive Officer Joseph Kosure says that Export Processing Zones Authority(EPZA) will establish export processing points in resource potential counties in Nyanza Province so as to tap the available resources to allow locals to cheaply export their products.
Kosure says there is a lot of resources in all the five counties in
the region which could be tapped and exported cheaply from local areas.
He says this will benefit the local people who have not been dreaming about exporting their products.
Addressing investors in a hotel in Kisumu, Kosure says that so far EPZA is in the process of identifying where there are adequate resources in order to establish the export processing points where the resources are available and can be utilized for export.
He says plans are also underway to revitalize the defunct industries in the region and establish new ones in areas where there is enough raw materials.
He says that apart from fish, the province has potential in cotton production and that the EPZA is liaising with the Cotton Development Authority (CODA) to rejuvenate the dying ginneries and fabric industries in the region.
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