300,000 tons of sugar are coming in Tanzania - Bashe

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Published Feb 23, 2024

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Tanzania's Minister of Agriculture, Hussein Bashe, has announced plans to import over 300,000 tons of sugar this year to address a deficit caused by rainfall damage to sugarcane fields. By mid-March, 60,000 tons will have been imported. The National Food Storage Agency (NFRA) is working with import companies, not traders, to manage this. However, some traders have been exploiting the situation by hiking sugar prices, leading to the arrest of over 80 traders.

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The Minister of Agriculture, Hussein Bashe has said that for this year the Government will import more than 300,000 tons of sugar to meet the current deficit. He has said that by March 15, 2024, 60,000 tons of sugar will have been imported into the country, thus bringing relief to consumers. Minister Bashe has said this at the White House, Dar es Salaam during a meeting of editors and reporters with the Director of Presidential Communications, White House regarding the visit of President Samia Suluhu Hassan to the Vatican, Norway and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Minister Bashe has emphasized that the Government will continue to import sugar from abroad due to many sugarcane fields being affected by the rains and thus affecting production. He added that the National Food Storage Agency (NFRA) has entered ...

Source: Habarileo