Pearl Dairies plans to employ about 4,000 people along the value chain in its honey processing project as it nears commissioning of the factory located in Mbarara. Mr Michael Van den Berg, head of dairy and apiculture development, Pearl Dairies, said the honey processing factory is 90 per cent complete. “The factory is 90 per cent completed. The final equipment that we imported from Italy arrived a few days ago. So we are very close to having the factory commissioned. We expect to commission it either by the end of March or beginning of April,” he said without revealing the investment amount injected into the factory development.