Plan targets small-scale businesses

>Small-scale farmers are suffering, says an academic.Dr Damian Gabagambi of the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro said 50 years after independence smallholder-farmers were far from benefiting from what they produce apart from using it as food.

Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (TEITI) is targeting small scale miners as it struggles to increase the number of companies to be covered in a series of its reconciliation reports.

As small-scale fishing on South-Africa's west coast declines, fishermen in Saldanha Bay are concerned their way of life may disappear entirely.

When Mr Simon Rufunga, a dealer in metal products, applied for a loan, he thought he had found the right solution for his business woes.

In one of my recent "ARTICLE" I raised my concern on the rise of cyber warfare not only between big countries or companies but also small companies and countries. With the new prediction stating 2015 there will be a big number of cyber espionage – We should expect African continent to be the most affected because of luck of readiness to combat cyber-attacks.

With recent report from Kaspersky Lab, Russian companies in oil, finance, military, and other sectors – as well as the country’s...

>Rural dwellers of Tanzania, especially peasants and those in the informal sectors- have reason to smile now as a home-grown solution that guarantees their social welfare has been developed.

Improvements in food processing and packaging used by both small and medium scale-traders in the country have impressed President Jakaya Kikwete.

Oxfam Tanzania has said that there is a need to empower small-scale farmers in the country to produce enough food.

Local small businesspeople such as those owning electronics stores, travel agents or small grocery shops could now become agents for providing services of an international logistics company, DHL.