Govt’s promise to rice farmers

Tanzania produces enough rice for export yet it does not do so despite availability of a ready market within East Africa.

>A rice project supported by donors from Ireland in Mvemoro  District has grown up to generate Sh700m following an increase of production, the project officer, Dr Moses Temi, has revealed.

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A government promise to the Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI) to have a plot for constructing an investment building is yet to be fulfilled.

The conflict pitting tea farmers in Bumbuli, Lushoto District and the government over the closure of the Mponde tea factory has reached another level after the former threatened to open it at the end of the month.

Dairy farmers here have blamed the ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries for allegedly failing to issue a statement regarding the shortage of veterinary vaccines, saying their animals die because of lack of such services.

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The government has called on traders to export foodstuffs held in storage as huge harvests for 2013/14 season will lower produce prices, harming farmers.

The government has allayed smallholder farmers’ fears that they will not be affected following the 2014 amendments of the Seeds Act, 2003.