Boost sugar processing to end chronic shortages

The concern by MPs, especially those who hail from constituencies where sugarcane is a major cash crop, are agitating for a curb in sugar importation and on the outset, their concern makes a lot of sense. Tanzania is blessed with a climate and soils that are optimally good for sugarcane farming, which means we should boast as global supplier of the sweetening product whose global demand is insatiable.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Mar

EDITORIAL: Target majority’s needs to end chronic poverty

>A report by the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network released over the weekend provides a disturbing scenario: 20 million people in East Africa are chronically poor!

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

FEATURE : Tanzania sets strategy to end chronic blast fishing

The days of people involved in blast fishing, who are wreaking havoc along Tanzania’s 800-kilometre coastal line, are numbered, warns head of the Multi-Agency Task Team (Matt) deputy commissioner of Police (DCP) Daniel Nyambabe.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jan

EDITORIAL: Curb rampant smuggling to boost sugar industry

>Tanzania has the capacity to produce more sugar than its requirements, yet it is not, the major reason being that our plantations are heavily rain dependent.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

16 Dec

TRA vows to end sugar smuggling

TRA vows to end sugar smuggling
IPPmedia
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has vowed to end smuggling of sugar and various other goods into the country, a crime it believes is the work of a syndicate of dishonest traders and public officers. The watchdog agency has admitted that this is a ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jan

TRA calls for end to sugar smuggling

Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has called for integrated efforts to control current rampant sugar smuggling after it seized 40 bags of the commodity offshore at Kunduchi area last week.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Sep

Magufuli promises to end sugar price fixing

The CCM presidential candidate, Dr John Magufuli, wound up his campaigns in Morogoro where he promised to establish more sugar factories in the leading sugarcane producing region.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Apr

EAC to tackle chronic diseases

The burden of Malaria, HIV/Aids and Tuberculosis (TB) is still prevalent but the East African Community (EAC) bloc is now turning its focus on non-communicable diseases which are equally life-threatening.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Oct

Wananchi up in arms over chronic shortge of water

>Sikonge District authorities have been blamed for failing to address water shortage facing residents of Kipili Ward.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Nov

Why chronic diseases top list of major killers in TZ

Despite a wide range of policies and strategies, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remain the leading causes of death in Tanzania.

 

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