EDITORIAL: Why irrigation is key

A country that is unable to feed its people cannot justify its very existence. The Kilimo Kwanza initiative confirms the premium attached to agriculture by President Jakaya Kikwete’s administration. It is through such programmes that sufficient resources can be channelled into boosting agriculture to enhance food security.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Nov

EDITORIAL: Escrow: key revelations

We have keenly followed the Escrow Account report and debate in Parliament and drawn three main lessons from the discussion. The first of these is that public leaders in this country have no idea what taking political responsibility is.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Feb

EDITORIAL: Hurry not this key process

>If we were to be honest, we would admit that the referendum scheduled for April 30 is a hurried affair.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Jan

EDITORIAL: Freedom of the press a key pillar of democracy

>Tanzania introduced multi-party politics in the 1990s after quite a bit of dilly-dallying. This was essentially because the results of an opinion poll conducted earlier showed that only 25 per cent of the people wanted a multi-party system.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Feb

EDITORIAL: Psychology services key to curbing self-murder

>Two local papers yesterday reported three cases of unnatural deaths in different parts of Tanzania. In Manyoni, the driver of the Officer Commanding District (OCD) blew off his head with a gun in the privacy of his bedroom. In his suicide note, he said nobody should be investigated because he had made a personal choice.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Apr

EDITORIAL: Voter education is key to a successful referendum

>About 52 per cent of people on the Mainland would have voted for the Proposed Constitution had the referendum been held between January and February this year, according to a Twaweza opinion poll.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Aug

EDITORIAL: Anti-ebola strategy key to protecting tourism

>It’s too bad that, the local tourism sector,  generator of 25 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings, and creator of some 27,000 jobs, has literally been caught by the   ‘misfortunes come in a series’ trap. A little over one month ago, 17 tourists were ambushed  at a lodge in the northern tourist circuit, attacked, and robbed of items valued at over Sh20million.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Apr

Invest in irrigation

Tanzania’s rain-fed agriculture is prone to the vagaries of weather. Because of this, 75 per cent of the 45 million people are poor, especially those who live in rural areas. Smallholder farmers dominate the sector. They have average farm sizes of 0.9-three hectares and cultivate 5.1 million hectares annually.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Jul

Appeal to embrace irrigation

>The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives has been called upon to intensify irrigation farming education in efforts to increase productivity and ensure food security.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jul

College introduces irrigation training

Boreholes will have to be drilled to ensure steady supply of water for an irrigation training project to be undertaken by the Arusha Technical College (ATC) on the outskirts of the city.

 

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