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.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

31 Jan

Smuggling of sugar causes Sh462bn loss

>Out-growers, factories and sugar dealers in the country have continued to suffer due to lack of control and proper regulations of sugar, the Parliament heard yesterday.

 

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.

 

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 ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Oct

Rules tightened to deal with sugar smuggling

The gov­ernment has amended sugar regulations to allow bulk pro­curement system in importing the sweetener to address the challenge of illegal imports.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Feb

LAKE ZONE: Sugar smuggling hurts us, says investor

>Thousands of tonnes of sugar being smuggled into the country is threatening local manufacturers’ business, an investor has said.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

03 May

Smuggling sours market for Africa sugar producers

>Africa’s sugar producers want governments to tighten border controls across the continent and tackle sugar smuggling, a problem they said was helping drive down local sugar prices.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Apr

Sugar industry: bring back the sweetness

The sugar industry still experiences low supplies despite 20 years of privatisation, which was expected to boost production.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Nov

Cashew industry gets Sh 30bn boost

About Sh30 billion has already been allocated for the construction of three cashew nut factories which will help to boost country’s processing capacity of the second largest export cash crop.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Nov

Dar hotel industry gets boost

Hotels Association of Tanzania (HAT) has welcomed the planned entrance of a new hotel management in the country but called upon the government to create conducive environment for growth of the hospitality industry.

 

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