Tanzania: TARI speeds up sunflower research to contain edible oil shortage

Published 2021년 9월 23일

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The Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) is accelerating its sunflower research to address the country's edible oil shortage. The institute has introduced two new sunflower seedling varieties, TARI-ILO and TARI-NA, which are resistant to stresses and have a high seed yield and oil content. TARI is also focusing on palm tree production as a strategy to further boost edible oil production. The government's ultimate goal is to make Tanzania self-sufficient in edible oil production, with the aim to reduce importation of cooking oil, which currently costs the government over 400bn/- annually.

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TANZANIA Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) has intensified efforts to speed up the pace of sunflower research in a bid to contain edible oil shortage in the country. TARI National Coordinator for Sunflower Research, Mr Frank Mulamula said that as a result there have been recent releases of two seedling varieties (TARI-ILO and TARI-NA), which were registered in 2019. He said the purpose of releasing these two varieties of seedling is to increase productivity and overall sunflower production to anchor edible oil availability in the country. "The varieties have high seed yield, high oil content and they are resistant as well as tolerant to major biotic and abiotic stresses, and well adapted to target production areas," explained Mr Mulamula. According to Mr Mulamula, the varieties were in small quantity that required passing through maintenance breeding in 2020 but they are now at the second generation of multiplication stage of these varieties, aiming at obtaining sufficient ...

Source: All Africa