For more than a decade, Alko Vintages has devoted resources towards supporting small-scale farmers in more than 30 villages in the Dodoma Region in Tanzania, to learn and practice Viticulture as a means of earning decent livelihoods. We see viticulture as a lucrative venture and we believe has a great potential to transform lives, given the growing demand for wine consumption across the world. This is why we have invested in value addition through winemaking.
We have developed a partnership program that targets to sustain farmers, resources and communities by promoting farming practices and methods that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities.
Through our Contract Farming arrangement, more than 1,200 farmers have been recruited into viticulture, and are now making regular income from selling grapes to supplement their earnings from other economic activities.