Tanzania: VP calls for strategy to uplift forest and honeybee sector

VICE -President Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan has called upon forest and honeybee stakeholders to devise a strategy for promoting the sector's products, to allow it to significantly contribute to the country's economy. The VP said that currently, forest and honeybee contribute 3.5 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 5.9 per cent of export income. "We should come up with the strategy for promoting these products to expand our market hence increase contribution of this sector to the national income," the VP said in her speech read by the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Dr Damas Ndumbaro. Dr Ndumbaro represented Ms Samia in an International Scientific Conference on Forrest and Honeybee Products Value Chain for sustainable Livelihoods and Industrial Economy held in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. "We have varieties of forest and honeybee products but we lack the strategy of promoting them ... there is no doubt that we produce sufficient honey which is also being sold to the ...