African Agriculture and Food Systems
In June 2006, the AU member states adopted the “Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the African Green Revolution” and resolved to increase fertilizer consumption rates across the continent from 8 kilograms per hectare to 50 kilograms per hectare by 2015, a target whose deadline has been surpassed. In Tanzania, fertilizer usage stands at 13.68 kg/ha […]
By Isaiah Esipisu | Nation Media Group King’ori is a quiet village in Arumeru District in Arusha, Tanzania. It is in this region, East Africa’s diplomatic hub, that one finds Uremi Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Society (Amcos). The Seeds of Gold team finds its members gathered at a social hall to discuss an important and urgent […]
SONGEA: Katibu Mkuu, Wizara ya Mifugo na Uvuvi (Uvuvi), Dk Rashid Tamatamah amesema kuwa Serikali imepanga kutumia Shilingi Milioni 110 kwa ajili ya kuimarisha miundo mbinu ya Kituo cha Kutotolesha Vifaranga vya Samaki cha Ruhila ili kiweze kuzalisha vifaranga vitakavyokidhi mahitaji yaliyopo sasa. Dkt. Tamatamah aliyasema hayo leo alipotembelea kukagua shughuli zinazofanywa na kituo hicho […]
DODOMA: Taasisi za fedha nchini zimeipongeza Serikali kwa maamuzi ya kulifufua Shirika la Uvuvi Tanzania (TAFICO) na kulipa tena nafasi ya kuweza kusimamia mnyororo wa thamani wa zao la Samaki huku wakiahidi kutoa mtaji ili kuliimarisha shirika hilo. Hayo yalisemwa na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji, Benki ya Maendeleo ya Kilimo (TADB), Japhet Justine alipokuwa akizungumza na waandishi […]
Na Mwandishi Maalumu, Mtwara TAASISI ya Utafiti wa Kilimo Tanzania (TARI) Naliendele Mtwara, imetoa mafunzo ya namna ya kubebesha vikonyo vya mikorosho katika mikorosho iliyozeeka kwa wakulima wa kata ya Madimba mkoani Mtwara ikiwa ni sehemu ya kuunga mkono kampeni ya “ondoa mapori ongeza uzalishaji” yenye lengo la kuongeza uzalishaji na tija kwa zao la […]
Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) By Yasinta Amos in Arusha More than 100,600 smallholder farmers in Tanzania will be receiving grain and vegetable seeds’ grants worth US$ 493,500 to assist them in sustainable food production. Through its new “Better Farms, Better Lives” initiative, Bayer, a life-science oriented multinational company will run the programme for the next […]
An open letter to African governments In 2020, the entire world knew what it was to be hungry. Millions of people went without enough to eat, with the most desperate now facing famine. At the same time, isolation took on a new meaning, in which the lonely and most remote were deprived of human contact when they most needed […]
DODOMA: 23.01.2021 Serikali imeingia makubaliano na wafanyabiashara ya zao la ngano kuwa wale wote waliokuwa wakiagiza ngano nje ya nchi sasa watanunua asilimia 60 ya ngano hiyo hapa nchini ili kukuza soko la wakulima na kuhakikisha nchi inajitosheleza kwa bidhaa hiyo. Makubaliano hayo yameingiwa leo Jijini Dodoma kati ya Waziri wa Kilimo Prof. Adolf Mkenda […]
DODOMA: 23.91.2021 Waziri wa Mifugo na Uvuvi, Mashimba Ndaki amesema Serikali imeweka mikakati ya kuhakikisha ugonjwa wa homa ya nguruwe ulioikumba mikoa ya Kanda ya Ziwa hivi karibuni unadhibitiwa. Aidha alisema tangu ugonjwa huo uanze mpaka sasa umeshasababisha vifo vya nguruwe 1,500 wenye thamani ya shilingi milioni 375. Ndaki aliyasema hayo leo jijini Dodoma alipokuwa […]