Input woes cut cotton output by 30pc: board

Cotton production is projected to increase by 4,000 tonnes this season from 246,000 tonnes the previous period.

>Opec will not cut oil production even if the price drops to $20 a barrel and it is unfair to expect the cartel to reduce output if non-members do not, Saudi Arabia said.

Assets of Bank M Tanzania increased by 30 per cent to Sh600 billion in the third quarter of this year compared with the value in a similar period last year.

Only 30 per cent of all medicine the government supplies to hospitals and health centres reaches patients, the minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Ummy Mwalimu, said this yesterday during the tour of Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who launched a building for emergency patients at Geita Regional Designated Referral Hospital.

>Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) has raised alarm that lack of participation of  local players in running the railway business was largely due to corruption.

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Chadema presidential candidate Edward Lowassa has assured Tanzanians that he will ensure that each Tanzanian benefits from investment contracts with foreign investors, if he comes to power.

 Farmers lose up to 20 per cent of grain their harvests because of poor storage, it emerged here during a capacity building workshop for stakeholders in the agriculture sector. A farm input supplier, Mr Gesso Bajuta, attributed most of the losses to attacks by pests, noting that the problem could be contained with ample supply of pesticides.

Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) plans to improve performance of its main port, Dar es Salaam, and increase annual cargo traffic from 13.5 million tonnes in 2013 to 18 million tonnes come 2015, which is about 30 per cent growth.