The government of Tanzania spent Shs 300 billion on cashew nuts

The GOVERNMENT has said that in the past three years it has spent more than Shs 300 billion to support cashew inputs in the country. Speaking today in Dodoma at the main meeting of cashew stakeholders in 2024, the Minister of Agriculture, Hussein Bashe said that the main thing in that is to start increasing the number of farmers and the only way to eliminate problems is to make their system for registering farmers reliable. READ: President Samia gives cashews to Africa "The cooperatives should participate, the district government should participate, guide them because our sauce is the produce, now to assure yourself is to know your farmers and in order to be known to the farmers and to get the correct statistics, you must manage the farmers' registration system" He added that: "Before I started struggling with the gates, I would start struggling to know the producer of cashews, sesame seeds and peas in my council, who has a big farm, how much he produced last year." In addition, ...