Tanzania: A fly stopped the mango business

ZANZIBAR; The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock has said that it is continuing with the research of insects including flies that have been attacking farmers' crops and setting back efforts to produce food crops. This was said by the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock, Shamata Shaame Khamis while answering the question of the Mwanakwerekwe State Representative, Ameir Ali Ameir who wanted to know the efforts being taken by the ministry to combat dangerous insects that attack farmers' crops. Khamis said that since 1990, there have been insects that attack farmers' crops, including mangoes and oranges, thus setting back the efforts of farmers in the development of agriculture and its production. For example, he said the effects of flies that attack agricultural crops have caused great losses and farmers who were exporting crops have hesitated to do so after the buyers of those crops banned the importation of those ...