Tanzania: VP calls for strategy to uplift forest and honeybee sector

Published 2021년 2월 23일

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VICE-President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania has urged stakeholders in the forest and honeybee industry to develop a strategy to boost the sector's economic contribution. The sector currently accounts for 3.5% of the country's GDP and 5.9% of export revenue. Hassan emphasized the need to improve production, address value chain gaps, and identify market needs. She also called for an increase in factories for processing forest and honeybee products, with a goal of 200 countrywide. The VP's remarks were made during an international conference on forest and honeybee products in Dar es Salaam.

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VICE -President Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan has called upon forest and honeybee stakeholders to devise a strategy for promoting the sector's products, to allow it to significantly contribute to the country's economy. The VP said that currently, forest and honeybee contribute 3.5 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 5.9 per cent of export income. "We should come up with the strategy for promoting these products to expand our market hence increase contribution of this sector to the national income," the VP said in her speech read by the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Dr Damas Ndumbaro. Dr Ndumbaro represented Ms Samia in an International Scientific Conference on Forrest and Honeybee Products Value Chain for sustainable Livelihoods and Industrial Economy held in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. "We have varieties of forest and honeybee products but we lack the strategy of promoting them ... there is no doubt that we produce sufficient honey which is also being sold to the ...

Source: All Africa