Mr Alex Odundo demonstrates how sisal fibre is processed using one of his home-made machines, called the decorticator. Right: The spooling machine, which is used to twine sisal fibres. The machine ...

Women group in Tharaka Nithi making sisal bags. When Smart Harvest team arrives, we find a group of women weaving sisal into neat baskets. The women from Kithangani village in Chuka-Igambang’ombe ...

Dar Es Salaam — The Tanzania Sisal Board (TSB) plans to increase both production and productivity of sisal crop whose prices have been escalating in the local and international markets in the recently ...

OVER a century ago, nobody would believe that one day, a small scale farmer in a remote village in Tanzania would bother to venture in sisal farming. This is because everywhere, at the onset of rain ...

Hundreds of casual workers at Lomolo Sisal Factory in Makongeni, Rongai in Nakuru County are staring at job losses after fire destroyed more than 400 tonnes of processed sisal. The Monday fire, whose ...