Farmers in Tanzania urged the government to strengthen the irrigation infrastructure

A UNION of irrigation farmers under the auspices of the Network of Tanzania Farmers' Groups (MVIWATA) from the village of Mkoka in the Kongwa district of the Dodoma region, have asked the Government to strengthen the irrigation infrastructure in the cultivation of sunflowers in Mkoka. "The only solution is to build a reliable well which will resolve the frequent conflicts between farmers and herders because the concept has been built that farmers use a lot of water in irrigation activities in the area," "It has reached the point of being sent to the Village Government to respond to the allegations of misuse of water in irrigation and we have to wait for ten days in order to change the use of water, which weakens our plants that need water in their growth." This was said by the Chairman of the union group of crop irrigators in the village of Mkoka in the Kongwa district of the Dodoma region, Rajabu Singo during a special interview with journalists who visited to see the field of ...