Tanga. In 1993, an engineer with the then Tanzania Sisal Authority (TSA), Mr Gilead Kissaka teemed up with Mr Anael Kimaro, the person considered to be the godfather of biogas technology in Tanzania, to set out a trial of producing electricity from sisal waste.At the time when the sisal production needed some new changes to expand its market, their mission focused on increasing utilisation of the sisal plants from 2 per cent, which consisted of fibre only and also to try to work out solutions to increasing running costs, of which 40 per cent was on electricity. That was in 1992.
In 1993, the first digester, a 60-cubic metre structure, was successfully built by the Centre for Agricultural Mechanization and Rural Technology (Camartec) at Muheza Sisal Estate.
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