Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company from next year will hit the one million mark in canned tuna for the first time.
So far, MIFCO has produced around 600,000 canned tuna any given year.
The 40 percent production expansion will mean production of 400,000 extra cans of tuna.
The increase in production comes in the wake of international demand for Maldives’ canned tuna, a MIFCO official told.
To produce one million cans, about 20,000 metric tons of tuna will be required.