EDITORIAL: Pay farmers rightful dues

>Our farmers have long complained that unscrupulous people tamper with measuring scales in order to fleece them of their rightful earnings. Their protests have been largely ignored even as middlemen continue to ride roughshod over them.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jan

PAC wants farmers to pay for Sh3bn fertiliser

>The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives to ensure that farmers paid Sh3.1 billion for fertiliser sold to them on credit during the 2012/13 financial year.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Feb

State borrows Sh15bn to pay maize farmers

The government has borrowed about Sh15 billion to settle extended debts that the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) owes farmers.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Aug

EDITORIAL: Get creative, farmers!

>Fruit and vegetable farming is a rewarding enterprise, but only if farmers know how to exploit the growing market inside and outside Tanzania. The East African Common Market has opened up more opportunities for all regional farmers, but we still need friendly cross-border laws and regulations.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 May

EDITORIAL: Let's do more to assist smallholder farmers

We have spoken about the importance of agriculture in the national economy since independence, but the majority of smallholder farmers remain stuck in the same old ways.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Mar

EDITORIAL: Involve farmers in policy formulation

>For decades, agriculture has been the economic mainstay of Tanzania. Despite the growth of other sectors in recent years, it accounts for 24.5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, provides 85 per cent of exports and employs more than a half of the workforce.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Dec

EDITORIAL: Floods: Dear price we pay for not preparing

That a three-hour downpour left 200 houses under water in Dar es Salaam Tuesday is enough reason to worry – but it doesn’t come as a surprise. Houses flooded, cars submerged and roads impassable – it’s part of life, sadly ‘acceptable’, this time, year in year out. But why do we never take appropriate action about it? Again, it’s time to reflect.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Nov

EDITORIAL: Zanzibar’s failure to pay power bills disgraceful

>The drive for good governance has gained prominence under Tanzania’s multi-party political dispensation that is a little over 20 years now. Coupled with today’s freer media, which is a far cry from the restrictions that defined the single-party era, the demand for better governance is now bolder and louder.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

Why TZ not getting rightful tanzanite receipts

 Smuggling is denying Tanzania 80 per cent of receipts accrued from tanzanite -- a gemstone so far only found in the country -- an official said here yesterday.

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

23 Apr

Elderly persons not aware of rightful exemptions

Elderly persons not aware of rightful exemptions
IPPmedia
Despite being exempted by the government from property tax elderly persons living in their own houses, have found themselves paying the levy to municipal councils out of ignorance. The Third Phase government under President Benjamin Mkapa directed all ...

 

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