Violet Elimringi Kiwia
Position: Senior Agricultural Field Officer
Email: violetkiwia@gmail.com
Violet Elimringi Kiwia
holds a Diploma in Crop production obtained at the Ministry of Agriculture and
Livestock Development Training Institute (MATI)- Uyole, Mbeya Tanzania
(1988-1990). In 1990-2004, Violet worked at Tanzania Agricultural
Research Institute - Ukiruguru (formerly Ukiriguru Research Institute)
Mwanza, as Agricultural Field Officer. Violet has research experience in crop
production in the area of agronomic technologies of cotton and other crops. In
2004 to date, she joined Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute -Mikocheni (formerly Mikocheni
Agricultural Research Institute) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as Senior Agricultural
Field Officer under Post-Harvest unit. Her daily activities are i) Delivering
and Training of post-harvest technology to the farmers especially on coconut
tree crop, ii) Conduct research and supervise trials for testing appropriate
post-harvest technologies on coconut tree crop. Since that time, she has been
one of the members in the unit in production of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) at the
institute.