Katavi farmers were urged to embark on wheat farming in Tanzania

DEPUTY Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe has urged farmers in Rukwa and Katavi regions to embark on cultivating wheat as a cash crop to improve their livelihood and boost production in the country. He also urged them to farm other cash crops such as soya beans instead of depending solely on maize for food and cash crop whose price at local and foreign markets is unstable. Equally, the deputy minister directed councils through agriculture extension officers to identify farmers who prefer to farm wheat and the actual demands of the seeds. Bashe made such remarks recently during his working tour in the regions where he inspected the ongoing maize purchasing exercises saying he was satisfied with the exercises. "The government will scout the prospective buyers of the wheat crop like Bakhresa and Azania and make arrangements to sign a contract with farmers. "You should remember that today farming is business, not a charity and always transformation is painful to endure at the ...