Jitemee Holdings Co. Ltd owns licenses for salt farms along Indian ocean totaling at least 13 hectares in Kilwa district in Lindi Reigion, with capacity of producing more than 60,000 metric tons of raw sea salt per year. Recently, the company is in the process of upgrading the infrastructure of the farms to increase the production of raw salt to feed a salt refinery factory which is at final stage to be completed

Salt (NaCl) refers to the mineral substance of great importance to human, animal health and industry use. Salt plays a significant role in human socio-economic development; over the decades salt had a vast range of uses from preserving and flavoring food for being used to promoting fertility in animals and being used as a chemical in industries. Salt is a commodity with no substitute/replacement thus its demand tends to increase because of population increase and continuous industrial development.

In Tanzania, salt works have been found in different localities such as Lindi, Mtwara, Bagamoyo, Tanga, Uvinza-Kogoma, and some parts of Singida, Dodoma, and Manyara. These areas harvest raw salt using two methods such as solar evaporation and solution mining. JHCL has been producing sea water raw salt in Lindi region since 2022 by solar evaporation method where the sun has been used to evaporate saline water (sea) in special ponds to produce salt crystals that have been harvested mechanically.