Farming subsidies a must

On Wednesday, the Tanzania Heads of Secondary School Association (Tahossa) urged the government to stop sending primary and secondary school funds through district councils, and instead, deposit the monies directly into school accounts. The district councils should have the primary duty of overseeing how the money was being spent, they recommended during the Tahossa annual general meeting in Mwanza recently.

Over 90pc of airports depend on govt subsidies to operate  The Citizen Daily

World Trade Organisation member countries agreed to abolish agricultural export subsidies after five days of talks in Nairobi, but failed to make progress on the long-stalled Doha Round of negotiations aimed at lowering global trade barriers.

Secondary school headmasters want local government authorities to focus on their primary duty of overseeing how the development funds are being spent

A change is sweeping across Tanzania. Our smallholder farmers are growing and harvesting more than ever. Our grain storages are full. We are food secure.

Yesterday was Nane Nane Day, which was celebrated at national level in Lindi Region. Nane Nane Day is intended, among other things, to remind Tanzanians that agriculture is the backbone of our nation, so it should be given the importance it deserves.

With local and foreign investment concentrated in urban areas, hundreds of thousands of young Tanzanians leave their rural homes annually to seek employment in towns.

>The vast majority of farmers in Tanzania still depend on outdated farming implements and methods, which explains why productivity is unacceptably low compared to the effort they put into preparing land to harvesting crops.

After learning that it is through farming that the youth, who are the most victims of unemployment in the country, can be self-employed instead of being employed, some of them are utilising the sector’s potential.