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Tanzania: Cassava farmers appeal for govt support to tap into China market

Cassava
Tanzania
Published Nov 7, 2021

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​​​​​​​CASSAVA farmers in central zone production corridor have appealed to the Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) and Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute (TOSCI) to come up with strategies for enhanced production and availability of ‘Mumba’ seed variety.

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The concern surfaces following unavailability of the favourable cassava variety in central zone regions as the current plants have gone out of planting potential cycle and the responsible breeder have yet to purify seedlings. Mumba is the only superior cassava seed which has so far proved to flourish well in Dodoma and Singida regions. In May 2017, Tanzania signed phy-tosanitary protocol with China—the bilateral business development which apart from green lighting local companies to directly trade with China, it opened market access for dry cassava from Tanzania. China’s annual cassava demand from Tanzania stands at 2 million tonnes. From 2012 to 2016, the Mennonite Economic Development Association (MEDA) was funded by TARI to research and breed best cassava varieties with an eye to improve productivity among cassava farmers in the country, the vital program which saw introduction of the Mumba variety. Stephen Magige, Country Manager for MEDA said the initiative was gearing to ...
Source: IPPMedia

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