Mwanza Fish Processing Plant.
Workers are pouring freshly purchased fish into wooden barrels, sending them to the workshop for further processing.
This is a factory purely built on manual labor, primarily producing salt-cured fish.
Salt-cured fish can be preserved for a long time, is easy to transport, and can even be used as military rations.
In this era, where preservation technology is still underdeveloped, East Africa can only produce such traditional products.
Canned goods are somewhat feasible, but the cost is too high. Cans require materials like metal or glass as containers, neither of which East Africa can produce; it can only be considered after subsequent ironworks and glass factories are established.
Moreover, this is just the first step. Even with materials, machinery and other processes still need to be considered.
