DODOMA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- In a 1.5-hectare vineyard 39 kilometers north of the Tanzanian capital of Dodoma, 67-year-old grape farmer William Swai has recently been busy checking the grapes, which will be fully ripe and picked to make delicious wine by mid-July.
Tanzania, despite not having an international reputation as a wine producer, is home to the second-largest wine-producing region in sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa.
Swai said that the opening of international markets, including the Chinese market, to locally made wines will boost the production of the country's wineries.
Alko Vintages Company Limited is a Tanzanian company that makes several brands of wine. Four years ago, the Tanzanian company began working with a Chinese company based in China's Shandong to export wine products to China.
Some wine brands produced by Alko will be displayed at the third edition of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo slated for June 29 to July 2 in Changsha, the capital of central China's Hunan Province.
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