Local barley set to fetch Sh5.5bn

Productivity of barley can shoot up to 20 bags a hectare from seven bags through an initiative spearheaded by an agricutural input supplier called Lonagro.

The government intends to revive the Lower Moshi Irrigation Scheme in the Kahe lowlands near Moshi Town, the deputy minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Godfrey Zambi has revealed.

>Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) is proposing new salaries and allowances that would make even its middle-level employees the envy of some of the highest remunerated Tanzanian chief executive officers.

The Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation has set aside Sh1.5 billion to support education in Tanzania for 2016.

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Tanzania: Foundation - Sh1.5bn Set Aside for Science Students This Year
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — The Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation has set aside Sh1.5 billion to support education in Tanzania for 2016. Speaking at a press event to send off the 2015 overall winners of the Young Scientists Tanzania (YST) to Dublin in Ireland, the ...
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Project set to improve procurement in local govts
Daily News
PROCUREMENT performance is set to improve in local government authorities with the intervention of the Enhancement of Procurement Capacity of Local Government Authorities Project (EPC-LGAP). The project, which aims at sustainably enhancing the ...

Set yearly disaster budgets, local authorities urged
Daily News
THE Disaster Management Department has advised district councils in the country to set budgets for tragedies every financial year instead of relying on the Central Government. The Coordinator of the Disaster Management Department in the Prime Minister's ...

An investment roundtable meeting would be one of the features at the Second Tanga International Trade Fair scheduled for May 25 to June 5, this year.

 Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL) has entered into an agreement with farmers in Basuto and West Kilimanjaro to produce barley on 7,100 acres.