State borrows Sh15bn to pay maize farmers

The government has borrowed about Sh15 billion to settle extended debts that the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) owes farmers.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Zambia's disgruntled maize farmers

Despite a bumper harvest, Zambia's maize farmers are unhappy about subsidies, prices and profit.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jan

PAC wants farmers to pay for Sh3bn fertiliser

>The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives to ensure that farmers paid Sh3.1 billion for fertiliser sold to them on credit during the 2012/13 financial year.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Sep

EDITORIAL: Pay farmers rightful dues

>Our farmers have long complained that unscrupulous people tamper with measuring scales in order to fleece them of their rightful earnings. Their protests have been largely ignored even as middlemen continue to ride roughshod over them.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Feb

Katiba Assembly pay saga awaits State House reply

A plot by Constituent Assembly (CA) members to have their allowances raised appears to have fallen on a rocky ground, with State House confirming yesterday that a committee formed to look into the matter submitted a report that made no mention of more money.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 May

Tanzania borrows Sh360bn a month: BoT

Tanzania borrowed an average of Sh360 billion a month from external sources in the year ending February 2014, statistics from the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) show.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Feb

Govt borrows Sh850bn to fill gap in national budget

local commercial sources, to fix a hole in the budget during the first four months of this financial year.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Feb

Sh15bn to preserve Dar heritage

>The European Union (EU) has joined efforts to conserve Dar es Salaam’s rich architectural heritage currently under threat from real estate developers.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

27 May

MPs mad at Sh15bn TTCL deal

Dodoma. The government has said it will pay Sh14.9 billion to Bharti Airtel so it can recover the Indian firm’s 35 per cent stake in the state-owned Tanzania Telecommunication Company Limited (TTCL).

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jul

Local govts to receive Sh15bn for polls

>The government has allocated Sh15 billion to meet the costs of local government elections later this year should the process of making the new constitution be completed and the document endorsed.

 

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