Tanzania: Compensate costs of misused sunflower seedlings

Dodoma — THE Tanzania Agricultural Seed Agency (ASA) has expressed its dismay over the consistent tendency by Singida Region authorities of failing to distribute to farmers more than 100 tonnes of subsidised sunflower seedlings. The seedlings were dispatched by the agency to help farmers from across the region during the ongoing growing season. While the sunflower cropping season approaches its end, it has been reported that more than 100 metric tonnes of the subsidised sunflower seeds that was channeled in the region through the state-owned seed Agency, ASA, has not been distributed to the intended growers as the seeds are still in the hands of ward and village officials for no sober reasons. Following the situation, ASA's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Sophia Kashenge has demanded the region to compensate the costs of the misused volume of the vital seeds. In this farming season, Dr Kashenge expressed, the Agency sent at least 396 metric tonnes of the subsidised sunflower ...