Tanzania Cereals and Other Produce Board (CPB) opens grain centres in Juba, Lubumbashi

Published 2022년 1월 25일

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The Tanzania Cereals and Other Produce Board (CPB) has opened grain trading centres in Juba, South Sudan, and Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, selling products like maize flour, wheat flour, rice, and beans. The board aims to find both local and international markets to provide good prices for Tanzanian farmers and traders, motivating them to increase production. Despite buying only 58,000 tonnes of maize and other grains due to cash flow issues, the CPB plans to purchase 420,000 tons of maize for the 2021/22 season. The board also intends to buy other crops such as sunflower, rice, wheat, white sorghum, and soybean, and has already purchased all the wheat grown by farmers for its processing factory in Arusha.

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The Tanzania Cereals and Other Produce Board (CPB) have opened grain centres in Juba South Sudan and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where various products are being traded. The CPB Director General, Dr Anselim Moshi told Daily News that the stations started to operate in December last year. The DG said they have been already delivered 800 tons of grains to the two centres including maize flour, wheat flour, rice and beans; 300 tonnes in Juba and 500 tonnes in Lubumbashi. "We planned to open warehouses in Kenya, DRC and Sudan. So far we have opened two centres where various products are sold and the process of opening other centre in Nairobi is going on,” said Dr Moshi. He said CPB will continue to find markets locally and abroad to enable Tanzanian farmers and traders get good markets for their products. "Access to markets motivates farmers to increase production. Farmers and traders will benefit from agriculture and therefore encourage more people to enter ...

Source: Dailynews