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ITC and WFP partner to fund smallholder farmers in Tanzania
Posted on :Wednesday , 19th July 2017
Smallholder farmers produce most of the world’s food, but they form the majority of people living in poverty and often have food security challenges themselves
The initiatives with KCB Bank Rwanda Limited and CRDB Bank PLC in Tanzania are part of the Farm to Market Alliance, a multi-stakeholder platform established in 2016, of which IFC and WFP are globa. . .Tanzania: Plans Complete for First Agricultural Park in Tanzania
Posted on :Wednesday , 19th July 2017
PLANS are underway to set up the country's first Agricultural Park at Kimamba in Kilosa District that will provide farmers with land and irrigation infrastructure in the area to improve productivity for food security and economic growth.
The Agricultural Park is an area set aside largely for agricultural activities to encourage continuation of such operations,. . .Tanzania: Seaweed Trade Booms Amid Concern About Falling Prices
Posted on :Wednesday , 19th July 2017
Seaweed farming is gathering momentum in Mtwara, thanks to its comparative economic advantages. However, not all farmers have benefited from the booming business for various reasons.
In a recent visit by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Tanzania, a villager of Imekua, Ms Asha Bakari, 35, told The Citizen that she grew up cultivating this crop with her famil. . .Tanzania: Institute in Fresh Push for Cassava
Posted on :Wednesday , 19th July 2017
Kilosa. Experts from the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI)-Ilonga have advised leaders at all levels to encourage farmers to cultivate cassava, which is a drought resistant crop with a reliable market.
Speaking during an exhibition of various crops researched at ARI in Kilosa, the Eastern Zone director of research and development in the ministry of Agricul. . .World Food Prize Winner Says African Agriculture Is the Key to World Food Security
Posted on :Wednesday , 19th July 2017
The son of a Nigerian farm laborer who rose out of poverty to earn graduate degrees in agricultural economics and spent his career improving the availability of seed, fertilizer and financing for African farmers is the winner of this year’s World Food Prize announced Monday.
Akinwumi Adesina, president of African Development Bank, says the future of glob. . .Please Select an Option
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