The next Tanzania's agriculture minister will be tasked with ensuring food imports elimination

게시됨 2020년 11월 14일

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President John Magufuli of Tanzania has designated a new Minister of Agriculture with the responsibility of eradicating the country's reliance on food imports, particularly wheat. To achieve this, the government will focus on enhancing the productivity of key crops and promoting commercial agriculture. This includes expanding irrigation areas, improving access to agricultural inputs and financial services for smallholders, and increasing storage capacity to reduce crop losses. The ultimate goal is to stimulate economic growth, alleviate poverty, and create job opportunities by developing major sectors such as agriculture, livestock, fisheries, industry, mining, trade, and tourism.

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The Minister of Agriculture, who will be appointed by President John Magufuli, has been tasked with ensuring that the country eliminates food imports. Inaugurating the 12th parliament yesterday, President Magufuli said it was a shame for a country like Tanzania, to continue importing food including wheat from abroad. "Our country annually imports 800,000 tons of wheat, we spend an average of 1.3 trillion shillings imported food. This is a shame for a country like Tanzania. Therefore, we must find answers to this issue. And this should be the Minister's first task. He said the strategic crops targeted are cotton, cashews, tea, coffee, tobacco, sisal, sesame, cocoa, cocoa, sunflower, sugarcane and food crops. " He said Tanzania is the 20th largest producer of horticultural products in the world, with sales increasing from $ 412 million in 2015 to US $ 779 million in 2018/2019. “We intend to purchase a single cargo plane to facilitate the transportation of garden produce, but also ...

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