Tanzania, no sugar importation permits will be granted, says Mkenda

Published 2021년 8월 30일

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Tanzania's Minister of Agriculture, Adolph Mkenda, has declared that he will not sanction any permits for sugar imports, threatening to resign instead. This decision comes in response to illegal pressure from businesspeople aiming to profit from sugar imports, a practice that undermines local production. Currently, Tanzania faces a sugar production deficit, leading to reliance on imports, despite having adequate resources to satisfy domestic demand. A significant investment of Sh576 billion by Kilombero sugar is set to boost the country's sugar production, with the expectation of reducing importation by half.

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Dodoma — The minister of agriculture Adolph Mkenda has on Monday said he will not grant permits for importation of sugar and instead he would rather resign from his position. He called on business people who have been putting pressure on the ministry with the intension of being granted permit to import sugar in the country for personal interest in the process threatening local production. " Many business persons have been approaching the ministry over sugar import permits something that would make farmers in the country to cast away 350000 tonnes of sugarcane in Mtibwa due sugar importation," the minister said. Mkenda was speaking at the launch of the 5th National Statistics Census for Agriculture (NSCA) as exhibited by NBS for the year 2019/2020. According to him there has been a challenge in sugar production leading to importation of sugar in the country yet the country has sufficient resources to meet the internal demand. "The ministry will not grant permits for importation of ...

Source: All Africa