{UAH} Ugandan firm to start processing salt locally

A local company named Kampala Salt will start making salt when its manufacturing plant being developed in Lugazi Town, Buikwe District is completed, Evelyn Anite, the State Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization, said in a statement.

The minister says the initiative will help "boost local production" as well as "significantly" reduce the import bill.

In 2019, according to Anite, Uganda imported 177,178 tons of salt and saw an expenditure of about $25 million on imported salt.

"With this local salt production, our import bill is likely to reduce significantly," Anite said.

Due to sourcing salt from other countries, it always leads to a spike in prices when demand increases as supply tumbles.

It was seen recently when panic buying started as a result of eminent lockdowns.

For commodities within the country, Kyambadde said prices that had been hiked are now normalizing.

Meanwhile, Trade minister Amelia Kyambadde recently announced that Kampala Salt, which is the main supplier of salt in the country, cleared about 55 containers, which led to a drop in prices.

"Uganda does not produce adequate salt and we rely on imports from Kenya. One of the major importers of salt, Kampala Salt, who had about 55 containers on the high seas, and has since cleared the containers with so far thirty (30) already in circulation in the country," she said.

According to minister Kyambadde, the company's salt processing plant has a capacity of 192,000MT/year.

The development is in its final stages, according to the minister, who said the machines were tested in the first week of April 2020.

Another company, Herbal Salt Plus Limited, is producing Table Salt at a capacity of 500kg/week.

She said the government will "give them all the necessary support at this time to enable them produce the salt from here as soon as possible."

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