Tanzania targets wider banana market in Africa

Published 2021년 8월 19일

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The Tanzanian government, in partnership with the Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA), is planning a major initiative to boost banana crop production to meet both local demand and external markets. This plan, to be discussed in a forthcoming meeting in November, aims to enhance the banana industry's potential for food security and commercial growth. Tanzania and Uganda are the leading producers of bananas in Africa, with the global export value of the banana trade estimated to be 8.9 billion US dollars before the COVID-19 pandemic. The government's strategy includes encouraging mass production and quality improvement, with a focus on meeting domestic consumption and targeting African export markets.

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THE government has expressed its desire to increase banana crop production in a bid to meet local demand and supply to external markets. Minister for Agriculture, Prof Adolf Mkenda told a visiting Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Water that the crop has been categorized as strategic, because it has the potential to cater for food security and commercial purposes. "Plans are well underway to unlock the full potential of banana crop in order to meet our domestic consumption and export," Prof Mkenda told the house committee members on their familiarization tour to horticulture plantations in Kilimanjaro region. Prof Mkenda further said the government has decided to partner with the horticulture industry champion- TAHA and will soon rollout a major drive to spur the mass production of banana crop. "We have agreed with TAHA to convene a meeting in November this year, where all banana crop stakeholders, crop scientists, researchers, marketing experts and export ...

Source: All Africa