JK: We’re keen to support farming

Lowassa keen on irrigation farming
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IRRIGATION farming is one of the top priorities of Union presidential flag bearer on CHADEMA ticket, Mr Edward Lowassa, should he be elected to the highest office of the land. View Comments. Addressing thousands of Tarime residents over the weekend, ...
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INTERVIEW. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in the Tanzanian economy. They, however, face capital woes, a lack of entrepreneurial skills, bureaucracy and costly legal, regulatory and administrative environments.

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.

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.

Tanzania depends heavily on agriculture. Yet when it comes to sustaining the sector, our leadership seems to believe it can thrive on its own.

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.

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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.

Seaweed farming has benefited a lot of people in Zanzibar and creation of a cluster programme has added to the advantages of the farming as attested by Mwajuma Mwinyi, a seaweed farmer who lives in Zanzibar.