The African Organisation for Standardization (ARSO) has declared its commitment to revolutionize Africa's agricultural sector, noting that all hands should be on deck to adopt new technologies to help the continent move away from reliance on food imports and secure food supplies through rapid sustainable increase in food production.
In a statement ARSO explained that under ARSO THC 02, Agriculture and Food Products, chaired by Tanzania with membership and experts from across the continent, targets to help African countries revolutionise agriculture, by addressing issues of handling, packaging, labeling, storage and processing and intrinsically fulfill many of the broader requirements for producers to participate in global supply chains.
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