kusindika

How to say it

Meaning

To treat raw produce or materials in a factory to turn them into goods for sale, such as processing cotton, coconuts, tea, meat or natural gas.

Good to know

Transitive: kusindika mazao, to process crops; kiwanda cha kusindika, a processing plant. The noun is usindikaji, processing, and vyakula vilivyosindikwa are processed foods.

Examples

• Kiwanda hiki husindika maziwa kutoka vijiji jirani.This factory processes milk from nearby villages.
• Wakulima wanataka kusindika matunda yao wenyewe.The farmers want to process their fruit themselves.
• Vyakula vilivyosindikwa vina chumvi nyingi.Processed foods contain a lot of salt.