50,000 tons of sugar to enter Tanzania

The GOVERNMENT has allowed the importation of 50,000 tons of sugar for the months of January and February as a way to solve the problem of sugar shortage in the country. The Minister of Agriculture, Hussin Bashe has said this and explained that the level of sugar production in the country has dropped from November 2023 due to heavy rains that have caused the failure to harvest sugarcane in the fields this year. "With the rain continuing in the production areas, all factories continue to produce. We will continue to look at the production that is going and I assure the consumers that this situation will settle down within 30-60 days. I realize that in some places the price has gone up a lot, I can assure you that the situation will return to the past," said minister Bashe. Elaborating, he said that for the past three years domestic sugar production has been increasing and the government's expectation was to reach 550,000 tons ...