Visiting “Textiles and Leather Studio” at the Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences (DHNCS) you won’t leave empty handed as there are varieties of clothes and designs to choose from that suit your “flavour”.
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The studio is another good example of how degree programmes offered at SUA are capable of preparing students with relevant skills for employment (including self-employment) and for overcoming day to day challenges and grabbing emerging opportunities in life.
Creation of textiles and leather studio at SUA ignites ideas extending textile value chain beyond DHNCS, College of Agriculture.
About one decade ago, SUA had institutionalized value chain ideas during implementation of EPINAV programme- Enhancing Pro-poor Innovations in Natural Resources and Agricultural Value-chains.
Such value chain thoughts are still very much relevant today. Taking textile and leather studio as an example, the value chain ideas can be extended to recently created School of Engineering and Technology (SoET).
The University, through SoET can decide to design a new degree programme in textile engineering, which is equipped with ginnery machines for processing cotton into fibres.
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Still within textile value chain, the textile degree programme at SUA can install machine for processing fibres into textile materials, which in turn SUA DHNCS studio (and other customers from the general public) can use in making various kind of clothes (costume, attire, garments or dress).
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Who knows what the future can bring into SUA degree programmes? The interlinked value chain ideas and practices in textiles and leather can end up in the creation of SUA Morogoro textiles- a reflection of previous Morogoro shoes. And can as well take us to SUA Morogoro shoes and leather company/products in the near future.
This will be another a huge contribution to increased employment for SUA graduates and stirring agricultural related industrialization at large in Tanzania.
Kind regards,
Dr. Innocent Babili
SUA, Morogoro
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