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The government is planning to introduce concrete electricity poles that will replace the current wooden poles.

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Tanzania needs at least $50 million (Sh80 billion) to revive sisal production to reach the levels the country enjoyed in the first 15 post independence years, according to stakeholders of sisal industry.

Sisal land will continue to shrink in Tanzania if the government will not take urgent steps to protect it by forcing investors who buy estates for the crop to develop it to increase its production.

The CCM presidential candidate, Dr John Magufuli, yesterday pledged he will repossess privatised sisal estates that lie idle with the aim of redistributing them to farmers for free if he is elected in October 25.

Probe committee uncovers major sisal scandal  The Citizen Daily

>President Jakaya Kikwete has declared that abandoned sisal farms in Tanga Region will be repossessed and allocated to others to develop. He said the government will start with eight farms in Handeni District that will be immediately be distributed among wananchi.

The Tanzania Sisal Board (TSB) has reported here that efforts to attract various investors in the sector to raise utilisation of the plant from the current two per cent to 50 per cent by 2021 as well as increase employment and foreign exchange have started to bear fruit.

Morogoro. For 80 year-old Protas Yakobo who migrated to Tanzania in 1958 from Burundi to seek green pastures in ever green sisal plantations, his dreams have gone asunder.