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Tanzania rice sector gets $14m funding
Monday, 12 March 2012 04:43 Alfred Chisinda
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DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA - The Tanzanian government has received US$14.25 million additional fund from the Japan Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) agency to boost rice production in the country.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives said in a notice recently that, the additional funds will support the increase in rice production in 20 irrigation schemes selected from six irrigation zones
Men weigh bags of rice. Tanzania produces about 1million tons of rice annually.

Men weigh bags of rice. Tanzania produces about 1million tons of rice annually.
in Morogoro, Kilimanjaro, Mbeya, Tabora, Centre and Mwanza over three years.
"The additional fund will strengthen rice production in the existing irrigation schemes to complement the local and national level support of the Agricultural Sector Development Project (ASDP)" said the deputy permanent secretary, Mbogo Mfutakamba.
Mr Mfutakamba said the objectives of the PHRD grant is to support the achievement of ASDP project to enable farmers to have better access to use agricultural knowledge, technologies, marketing system and infrastructure.
"The project will enhance access to domestic and regional markets and value addition through improved market linkages for rice, processing and quality control," he said.
As a result of the fund, seven Zonal Irrigation and Technical Services Units (ZITSU) will be built along with Kilimanjaro agriculture Training institute (KATC), district-level irrigation technicians and extension staff and farmers to increase access to appropriate irrigation development knowledge and skills.
According to Eng. Gabriel Kalinga. Assistant Director for Irrigation at Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives, the additional fund was signed in January this year by the government of Tanzania, PHRD and World Bank Representatives in Dar es Salaam.
He said that the PHRD (the Japan Policy and Human Resources Development) will channel the fund through the World Bank where the government of Tanzania will have an access. Countries across Africa and elsewhere have been making increased calls to boost domestic production now that rice prices are up about 25% from the beginning of the year.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Tanzania needs about US$289 million every year to increase rice production by 500,000 tonnes, nearly doubling the crop area.
President Jakaya Kikwete was recently quoted by media as saying the government plans to increase rice production from 300,000 to 1.5 million tonnes in Kilombero, Rufiji and Mbarali areas under SAGCOT project for local consumption and export.
"With Kilimo Kwanza, the government is continuously investing in agriculture research for better yields and the private sector is gradually engaging in production and marketing the produce," he said.
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Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL) a subsidiary of EABL and Diageo plc is extremely focused on developing sustainable agriculture within the economy as an engine for growth, and in supporting the clarion call given by the Government on its agenda of Kilimo Kwanza.

"According to the statement issue by the Corporate Relations Director for SBL Mrs. Teddy Mapunda, SBL is currently developing farmland in Kilosa District in Morogoro, which is owned by an affiliated company and measures about 13400 acres of fertile land, in order to cultivate crops for its production needs

We are aiming at developing this farm which we shall support our growing needs of local raw materials from those areas for long term, as well as acting as a catalyst for neighboring farms from which we will seek also to source additional crops.
SBL through Diageo is one of the sponsors of SAGCOT (Southern Agricultural Corridor Of Tanzania) also committed on investing on a sustainable agriculture on this corridor she added...

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Tanzania’s Tea Production May Increase to Record on New Factory
By Fred Ojambo - May 16, 2012

Tanzania, Africa’s fourth-largest tea producer, may boost output to a record next year after a new factory is built, the Tanzania Tea Board said.

Production of the leaves may increase to 36 million kilograms (79 million pounds) in the 12 months through June 30, 2013, from 34 million to 35 million kilograms this fiscal year, Director-General Mathias Assenga said today by phone from Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital. A new factory is being built in southern Tanzania with the capacity to process 1.5 million kilograms of tea a year, he said.

“It is supplies from this factory which may boost output because production factors may remain the same next season,” Assenga said.

Tanzania’s tea output ranks behind Kenya, Malawi and Uganda on the continent, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization. Four-fifths of the leaves are sold to buyers from the U.K., Germany, India and the United Arab Emirates. Tanzania’s previous record crops was 35 million kilograms in the 2007-08 season, Assenga said.

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Dar clinch multi-million dollar agriculture deal
By In2EastAfrica Staff


The eight most industrialized countries have pledged 897 million US dollars support to Tanzania under the new alliance to bolster agriculture and food security in Africa announced by President Barack Obama here last Friday.


President Kikwete attends working lunch hosted by President Obama at Camp David

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President Jakaya Kikwete, who attended a G8 special session on Africa at Camp David near here on Saturday, said in an interview yesterday that the US made the largest single pledge of 315 million dollars.

Other pledges have been made by Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the European Union. In his announcement, President Obama said 45 African and transnational private companies had committed three billion dollars for various agricultural projects in the continent.

Tanzanian projects to benefit from the funding are those under the Agriculture Sector Development Programme as well as the southern corridor scheme.

Agriculture is the major occupation in Africa and the new push spearheaded by the US is aimed at marshalling resources from the private sector to augment government efforts to modernize farming and raise yield per hectare.

Private investment is encouraged in food crop farming and the supply of fertilizers, pesticides and high yielding seeds as well as agro-processing to add value to farm produce. President Kikwete explained that the G8 support would initially benefit Tanzania, Ethiopia and Ghana, which have been praised for having precise and comprehensive plans for agricultural development.

“They have decided to start with three countries and expand gradually,” he explained. The new initiative has been launched amid fiscal instability and austerity in Europe, but the US president said Africa must continue to get attention.

The Camp David summit also reviewed commitments by the G8 countries in Italy three years ago to provide 20 billion US dollars for agricultural development in Africa and other developing countries, some of which have not been met. Tanzania is yet to receive 30 million dollars from the commitment.

Meanwhile, President Kikwete said his government had started consultations with the US government agency for strategic development support to renew Tanzania’s Millennium Challenge Account.

“We have given the signal and they have expressed willingness to listen,” he said. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) provided 698 million US dollars under the first phase to finance Tunduma-Sumbawanga, Namtumbo Mbeya, Tanga-Horohoro and Pemba roads.

It also covered rural electrification schemes in six regions and Zanzibar and improvement of water supply in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro. The second phase is also expected to focus on roads and power supply.

In the wide ranging interview, Mr Kikwete explained that foreign investors in agriculture were allocated land earmarked by regional authorities through the Tanzania Investment Centre, rejecting allegations that they were grabbing land from peasant farmers.

“The private large farmers are coming to support smallholders, not to replace them,” he explained, adding that established projects were providing extension services and market for small farmers around them. Some foreign media had published unspecified claims that large scale farmers have grabbed millions of hectares of farmland from Tanzanian farmers.

By MKUMBWA ALLY, Tanzania Daily News
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With the new Chinese paddy tech, Tanzania can feed entire Horn of Africa,

The governments of China and Tanzania have vowed to cement the prevailing cooperation in agricultural technology, particularly on rice production by using hybrid rice from the Far East Asian country.

The hybrid rice can produce between nine and 12 tonnes per ha, more than four times the yield of the local rice.

At present, the average rice yield in the country is 1.95 tons per hector.

Speaking a reception for new Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania Lu Youqing in Dar es Salaam at the weekend the Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Christopher Chiza said the hybrid rice seeds would enable farmers to produce enough rice for domestic consumption and export. The reception was held in tandem with the showcasing agricultural achievements by the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre.

He said though Tanzania has enough food reserves, the price of rice is still high because of the increased demand caused by neighbouring countries.

He said the Rice Demonstration Centre at Cholima in Dakawa, Morogoro Region is clear testimony that Tanzania can produce much of the crop to feed the horn of Africa countries.

Chiza said Tanzania has 44 million ha suitable for agriculture, but only 10.1 million ha are cultivated. He added that there are 29 million ha for irrigation farming, but only 381 ha are operating with the assistance of the government.

Chiza said they are going to discuss the possibilities for Chinese support in setting up processing industries to facilitate exportation of value added products.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania, Lu Youqing, said once the project is fully implemented, Tanzania would no longer need to import rice.

“China-Tanzania Agricultural Technology Cooperation has brought tangible benefits to Tanzanians, many Chinese enterprises are engaged in agricultural and other development activities in Tanzania,” he said.

Youqing said apart from rice, in Morogoro Region, they have planted 1,333 ha of sisal employing more than 1,000 Tanzanians, with an annual output of 2,500 tonnes of sisal fiber.

Chinese companies, he said, have also provided technical training and seeder machines to local cotton farmers in Morogoro, Shinyanga, Mwanza and Mara regions, adding that the current cotton production of USD900m would be doubled to USD1.8bn with the application of Chinese cotton growing technology.

“We hope the cotton industry will become the largest foreign currency earner in Tanzania and lift millions farmers out of poverty,” he noted.

The demonstration centre at Dakawa is a result of Beijing Summit of Sino-Africa Cooperation Forum, where Tanzania and China signed the agreement for its establishment.

It covers a total of 62 ha which include three sections namely, office and training, experiment and display and production and demonstration area.



SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

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Tanzania: Firm Invests U.S.$10 Million in Tanzania's Agriculture
By Rose Herman and Cathreen Maendaenda, 23 July 2012

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Dar es Salaam — The Rural Livelihood Development Company (RLDC) has set aside $10 million to implement the fourth phase program aimed at addressing market constraints in three crops value chain, namely cotton, rice and sunflower.

Speaking to East African Business Week exclusively from Dodoma last week, the RLDC's Monitoring, Communication and Capitalization Manager, Mr Godfrey Bwana, said the program intends to reach 100,000 households in the central corridor of Tanzania. Bwana added the RLDC works as a facilitator in reducing rural poverty through the use of innovative market development initiatives. He added, the project will be used to transform the market systems of the agricultural into competitive and pro-poor sectors that benefit rural producers.

According to Bwana, the approach uses sector opportunities and addresses constraints, so as to give rural producers better access to markets. Elaborating among the outcomes of the program since introduction in 2005 and run t in three phases, Bwana said the production of sunflower and cotton have increased in the central corridor. "When we started intervention, the harvest was three to five bags of sunflower per acre but now farmers are able to harvest 9 to12 bags per acre," he said.

Similar to cotton crop, the actual production before the commencement of the project was an averaging 250kg per acre, but now some of our farmers harvest 500 to 800kg per acre, he added. Concerning the challenges Bwana said the major challenge the RLDP have been facing over the year, was the inescapability of weather risk for rain-fed smallholder agriculture in the central corridor. "It is imperative to devise ways of building up RLDP beneficiaries' resilience to drought in order to preserve the gains achieved," he said.

Due to this, he added among the RLDP's priorities in the future include to opt for some measures such as the irrigation schemes, insurance services and regulatory risk mitigation mechanisms. The market reform has started some 25 years ago in Tanzania, although the country has made great strides towards developing competitive markets since then, especially in the country's vast central corridor, formal markets are few and thinly spread.

RLDP uses making markets for poor (M4P) approach in implementing its interventions with private sector and public partners, he said and added, "the approach is a systemic and therefore RLDP alone cannot overcome the challenges and make system works."

"It is the responsibility of all market actors to work together to achieve the desired changes," he said. He said RLDC as facilitator of market development brings up the challenges encountered and shares them with market actors so that they can have a common solution for challenges. RLDP is an initiative of the government of Switzerland. The main concern is highly rural poverty in the central corridor of Tanzania which comprises six regions of Morogoro, Singida, Manyara, Shinyanga, Tabora and Dodoma.
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Tanzania Planning $650 Million in Water Projects, Ministry Says
By Randall Hackley - Jul 27, 2012
Tanzania is planning at least $650 million in projects to bring more potable water to Dar es Salaam and rural areas, Minister for Water Jumanne Maghembe said.

With Tanzania among the fastest-growing economies in Africa, the government wants to concentrate on irrigation to expand the agriculture sector and water infrastructure projects in the country’s commercial capital and elsewhere, the minister said, according to the Tanzania Daily News.

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Tanzania dips into Chocolate trade


9 JUL 2012 Thomas Lloyd
Tanzania is to become the first East African country to produce and export chocolate TAGS: Chocolate, Nuechatel, Swiss, Tanzania

Lameck Borega, the Investment Facilitation Officer of the Export Processing Zone, made the announcement at the 36thDar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF).

The Swiss chocolatier Nuechatel, who has been operating since 1982, is to open a base in Tanzania’s Export Processing Zone by this September; with a view to producing high-quality chocolate for both Swiss and US markets later this year. The deal will also have a high level of sustainability and is sure to bring further jobs and wealth to an area rich in natural resources.

The factory is likely to be situated in the Benjamin Mkapa EPZ, and Nuechatel has already produced local chocolate samples, which are being exhibited at the 36thDITF this week.

Whilst Tanzania is the first East African country to strike such a deal, Swiss chocolate makers are no strangers to the African market, with the West African nation of Ghana continuing to produce over 50 percent of Swiss cocoa.

Aside from job creation, the deal will also drive down the local price of chocolate, a commodity that is much loved in urban areas and among young people.

“For the first time, consumers are going to have chocolate made locally with the label 'quality chocolate from Tanzania’”, said a proud Borega, who has arranged the agreement so that 20 percent of the product can be sold locally with price incentives for Tanzanian consumers.

Kamillo Kitzmantel, General Manager of the world famous chocolate makers Lindt, has been noted as saying:“supply can never meet demand.” With this in mind, the decision from the Tanzanian Ministry of Trade to dip into the chocolate market can only be seen as a safe one, especially as African cocoa is considered the gold standard in chocolate production.

Although exports will largely be aimed towards US and European markets, there is a possibility for further intra-African trade, and in the past three years the scale of Tanzania’s exports going to other African countries has increased by 11 percent to 41.9 percentof total exports.

The private agreement between Neuchatel and Tanzania’s Ministry of Trade and Agriculture is set to be one of many blossoming relationships between European business expertise and African agriculture.

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Tanzanian sugar firm to generate electricity, produce ethanol
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By HELLEN NACHILONGO Special correspondent (email the author)

Posted Saturday, August 4 2012 at 19:55
Agro EcoEnergy Tanzania plans to invest $425 million in producing sugar and ethanol; and generating electricity from sugar cane by 2014.



According to managing director Anders Bergfors 150,000 to 180,000 tonnes of sugarcane will be produced annually.

They also expect to produce 30 megawatts (MW) of electricity that will be used in operating vehicles. Of the 30MW, 15 MW will be used by the company and the rest by surrounding communities.

Mr Bergfors said the project will create more than 9,900 jobs locally and in other countries. He said 2,400 employees will be outgrowers, 1,500 permanent and 6,000 will be indirectly employed.

The managing director said the company expects to meet the total demand in the first year of production.

Global demand for sustainable agro energy products has risen in recent years due to increased food demand, peak oil and climate change.

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Through a strong focus on creating a sustainable agro industry, the project aims to become a role model and an engine to drive sustainable environmental and social development in the region.

The firm aims to lay the platform for a globally competitive agri-industrial sector in Tanzania.

With Tanzania currently experiencing a sugar shortage, the project is expected to maximise sugar production.

Agro EcoEnergy said that with a wide range of experts and development partners, it will develop a state of the art agricultural project that produces sugar for the domestic market, electricity for the national grid and bio-ethanol processed from excess sugarcane.

During a recent visit to the plantation, Tanzania Investment Centre acting executive director Raymond Mbilinyi said the centre will support Agro EcoEnergy and other investors for the benefit of the country.

Mr Mbilinyi said it is the government’s responsibility to provide support to investors.
He noted that only 60 per cent of the country’s sugar requirement is produced locally.

Mr Mbilinyi said production of sugar in Tanzania will help stabilise the economy.

Tanzania Investment Centre said that once production starts, the increased supply will help reduce the price of sugar.
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Dar es Salaam honey could earn $138m from exports
Monday, 06 August 2012 14:13 Leonard Magomba
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania has a size potential of producing 138,000 metric tons of honey worth Tsh133.3 billion ($138 million) per annum but currently the country produces only 7,800 tons per annum.
Sector analysts say, the minimal production was caused by the poor investment. In Tanzania beekeeping is carried out using traditional methods that accounts for 99% of the total production of honey and beeswax.
A study conducted by the Private Agricultural Sector Support Ltd (PASS) said "the country is capable of producing 138, 000 metric tons of honey worth Tsh 133.3 billion (Us. $138 million) every year."
The PASS's study availed to East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week found that the country also has potential to produce over 9,200 metric tons of beeswax worth Tsh35.5 billion (Us $ 36.8 million) annually.
The Principal Beekeeping Officer in the ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources, Mr Mathew Kiondo confirmed that the country has about 9.2 million honeybee colonies.
"Yes, I confirm that the country's production potential of bee products is about 138,000 tons of honey and 9,200 tons of beeswax per annum," said Kiondo.
According to PASS which was established to stimulate growth and investment in the agricultural and agro-business in Tanzania, more effort is needed to boost investment in the sector.
The study said the country produces about 4,860 tons of honey worth Tsh4.9 billion ($5m). It can as well produce 324 tons of beeswax worth Tsh648 million ($ 675,000) every year.
"This is only 3.5% of the existing potential of the beekeeping industry," the study said.
According to PASS, Tanzania's honey is purely organic and is ranked among the best in the world having passed the International Quality Test in the United Kingdom by 100% for clarity, consistency and low yeast and moisture contents.
The PASS's study said that there are over 34 million hectares of extensive and diverse forest lands hosting 9.2 million colonies of honey bees and a rich reserve of honey and beeswax now ready for harvesting.
It added, highly demanded in the urban domestic market and an ever-expanding export market in Europe, Japan and the Middle-East.
"Potentially low investment costs and promising high returns in the immediate and long term," the study said.
Beeswax is highly priced and highly demanded product nationally and internationally; it enjoys an already established and reliable export market in Europe, Japan, and the Middle-East, it added.
According to the study, the clearest type of honey is found abundantly in the regions of Iringa and Singida. The western zone of Tanzania including the regions of Tabora and Shinyaga has the largest reserves of bee products averaging 52,000 metric tons per year.
The potential markets for honey and beeswax include the local rural market which has traditionally been the largest for raw honey absorbing over 60% of all honey produced nationwide.
"The urban market in Tanzania is growing fast and the demand for honey is expanding rapidly," the study said and added current supplies do not meet the demand in urban areas. The export market for Tanzania's honey and beeswax is secure. Reliable markets are found in Japan, the United Kingdom, Finland, and the United Arab Emirates.
Tanzania was once the world leader in exports of beeswax in the 1960s and early 1970s and has the potential to once again dominate the world market given the unique opportunities available in the country.
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Tanzania gets $897m for food security
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The funds will be used in the Southern zone, Rukwa, Ruvuma, Iringa, Mbeya and Coast, Morogoro, regions.
The Minister for Agriculture and Food Security Christopher Chiza said the funds will go towards improving infrastructure, electricity supply and supporting agriculture development.
Mr Chiza said the US made the largest single pledge of Tsh497.7billion ($315million). Other pledges were made by Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the European Union.
Tanzania will receive Tsh1.4trillion ($897 million) grant from eight countries under the new alliance to bolster agriculture and food security in Africa.

The funds will be used in the Southern zone, Rukwa, Ruvuma, Iringa, Mbeya and Coast, Morogoro, regions.

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Security Christopher Chiza said the funds will go towards improving infrastructure, electricity supply and supporting agriculture development.

“The funds will be directed towards boosting projects to produce rice, maize and cane with the aim of increasing sugar and ethanol,” he said.
The Southern Zone is among agriculture rich areas in the country and the funds are likely to assure continuous food security.

Mr Chiza said the US made the largest single pledge of Tsh497.7billion ($315million). Other pledges were made by Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the European Union.

According to the minister, the countries pledged to support Tanzania following the launch of the Tanzania Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (Saggot).

The programme is designed to help Tanzania increase food supply, household incomes and promote better access to and utilisation of food in order to achieve meaningful nutritional gains through forging a strategic partnership with the private sector.

“The government is committed to modernisation of infrastructure in order to boost and commercialise agriculture,” said the minister.

He said successful implementation of Saggot would ensure food security for Tanzania and the rest of Africa, as well as reducing rural poverty through increased smallholder earnings and alternative income from employment.

“Some 420,000 new employment opportunities would be created in the agricultural value chain and 2.3 million people in the Southern Corridor could be lifted out of poverty,” he said.
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SA sugar firm’s Dar plant opens next year
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Graham Clark, managing director of Illovo Sugar Group, said the government of Tanzania had approved the company’s environmental impact assessment report for the $45 million Kilombero Sugar factory.
Construction of the ethanol plant, which started last year, is being undertaken by Praj Industries, a leading global process solution company for biofuels, brewery, process equipment, water and waste treatment, as well as bioconsumables.
The plant operators will be recruited at Kilombero and then relocated to Illovo’s Glendale distillery for training.
The South African-based Illovo Sugar Group will start operations at its new distillery in south western Tanzania early next year.

Graham Clark, managing director of Illovo Sugar Group, said the government of Tanzania had approved the company’s environmental impact assessment report for the $45 million Kilombero Sugar factory.

“The distillery should start full production in May 2013, and we hope to produce 12 million litres per year,” said Mr Clark, adding that the firm plans to produce alcohol in Zambia, Malawi and Mali by 2015.

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Construction of the ethanol plant, which started last year, is being undertaken by Praj Industries, a leading global process solution company for biofuels, brewery, process equipment, water and waste treatment, as well as bioconsumables.

Mohammed Abdool-Samad, the company financial director, said the firm will use sugar cane molasses as feedstock to produce beverage grade alcohol.

“The project scope includes technology, engineering and equipment supply as well as site work like civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation, and commissioning and training,” he said.

The plant operators will be recruited at Kilombero and then relocated to Illovo’s Glendale distillery for training.

Praj Industries executive chairman Pramod Chaudhari, said Praj Tanzania, a subsidiary of Praj South Africa is the contractor for the project.
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Tanzania Arabica Coffee Jumps 12% as Condition of Beans Improves
By Fred Ojambo - Aug 24, 2012
Tanzania’s benchmark coffee rose as much as 12 percent over the past week as the condition of the beans improved, the national coffee board said.

The benchmark arabica AA sold for as much as $210 per 50- kilogram (110-pound) bag yesterday compared with $188 a bag for the week earlier, the Tanzania Coffee Board said today by e-mail from the northern town of Moshi.

“The quality of the coffee is steadily improving,” Primus Kimaryo, the director of quality and promotion at the board, said by phone today from Moshi. “Buyers were aggressive in the market.”

The U.S., Japan and Germany are importers of Tanzania coffee, according to the board. Tanzania harvests its crop from April through August. Arabica accounts for 75 percent of the country’s output and robusta the rest.

Coffee supplied at the auction rose 46 percent to 30,644 bags from 20,978 bags a week earlier and sales climbed 41 percent to 26,841 bags, the agency said. The board offers coffee in 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags and sells them in 50-kilogram containers.

The following are details of yesterday’s auction in U.S. dollars for a 50-kilogram bag for the good grades:

Mild Coffee:
Grade Offer Sold High Low Average
Arabica AA 6,690 6,293 210 138 173.35
Arabica A 6,558 5,865 181.20 164 168.03
Arabica AB 881 516 171.20 164 168.95
Arabica B 5,613 4,768 180.20 161 164.03
Arabica PB 2,255 2,034 169.80 160 164.16
Arabica C 1,203 1,203 152 134 143.56

Hard Coffee:
Robusta Organic 1,079 1,079 114.20 110.80 112.51
Robusta Over Scn 18 360 360 111.20 111.20 111.20
Robusta Superior 2,519 2,519 109 103.60 106.54
Robusta FAQ 3,598 3,598 102.20 100 100.80
Unwashed Arabica
Arabica Organic 240 -- -- -- --
Arabica FAQ 1,439 360 138 138 138.00
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Company invests Sh2bn to increase production Send to a friend
Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:36

By The Citizen Correspondent
Tanga. The East Usambara Tea Company Limited (EUTCO) based in Muheza District, Tanga Region, has invested a total of Sh2 billion in infrastructural development at its Kwamkoro and Bulwa factories in a bid to increase production.

EUTCO boasts to be the third highest producer of quality tea in the Tanzania tea industry today.
A statement issued by the company’s managing director D.V. Singh in Dar es Salaam yesterday said the company was focused to produce tea in the most cost effective, sustainable manner consistent with responsible employment and environmental practices.

“We have made large investments of up to Sh2 billion this year in new and improved tea machinery for modernisation of our factories. Installation is currently under progress. We believe the new machines will improve efficiency, reduce costs and result in better tea grades,” Mr Singh said.

He said the company was expecting to double production capacity to five million kilogram of black tea given a yield potential of 2500 kilograms of made tea per hectare.

“With the recently launched National Tea Development Programme it is envisaged that out grower tea production in the Usambara Mountains will exceed over one million kilogram of black tea,” he said.

He added Eutco had begun the process of uprooting old tea plants and replacing them with new tea planting materials, clarifying that up to 59 hectares have been replanted to date.

“This will increase yields by three times. The new plants have been carefully selected in view of the changing weather patterns and they are drought resistant,” he said.


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Tanzania target rice production to 196m tons
Sunday, 23 September 2012 13:57 John Mbalamwezi
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA - Japan's International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has given $10m funding to the government of Tanzania to support development of the rice sector in six years.
Under the Supporting Systems for spread of Irrigated Agriculture in Tanzania (Tan-Rice II) project, Tanzania is expected to increase rice production to beyond 196 million tons per year by 2018.
Tan-Rice II is a second phase of Technical Cooperation in Supporting Service Delivery Systems of Irrigated Agriculture (Tan-Rice I) which came to an end in June this year.
"Tan-Rice II project will tackle all new challenges and making sure that the appropriate rice production techniques are extended and productivity increased in targeted areas in each agro-ecological zone," Mr. Yukihide Katsuta, Chief Representative of JICA Tanzania said last week.
He project will also spread raining to rice farmers in the mainland and Zanzibar. Tan-Re II is part of the government effort to framework the National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) under Agricultural Sector Development Project (ASDP).
"Although rice production increased in Tanzania, the growing demand of the food and crop also increased. The technical and moral support from JICA would be able to produce 196.3m tons of rice annual," he said.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Tanzania needs about $289m every year to boost rice production by 500,000 tons, nearly doubling the crop area.
The countries across Africa and elsewhere have been making increased calls to boost domestic production to lower price however the rice prices are still going up by almost 25% from the beginning of the year.
Although Tan-Rice I project has achieved a lot during the past five years, there are still some challenges to address. "So far, we have mainly focused on irrigated land; yet, it is inevitable to develop rain-fed lowland and rain-fed upland," the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Ms Sophia Kaduma, said.
Ms Kaduma said that there is a need to strengthen rice value chain which covers a wide range of techniques, namely, production, distribution, processing and marketing.
In the mainland, Tan-Rice I project started in 2007, Zanzibar joined in one year later. The purpose of the project was into to increase rice productivity in priority irrigation schemes through strengthening service delivery systems of irrigated paddy production.
Under Tan Rice I different technical trainings have been conducted to key farmers and extension officers in irrigation schemes across the country.
These trainings were conducted by Kilimanjaro Agricultural Training Center (KATC) as well as MATI-Igurushi, Ilonga, Ukiriguru, Kizimbani Agricultural Training Institute in Zanzibar and benefited more than 40 irrigation schemes in the country.
In July 2011, the Tanzanian government allocated Tsh42.23bn ($26.7m) to improve irrigation infrastructure in 160 priority areas and encourage farmers to adopt modern farming technologies.
Current, Tanzania produces nearly one million tons per year on about 700,000 hectares, yield 2 tons of paddy per hectare, though the domestic government claims yields are much higher. The country imports about 100,000 tons of rice a year.
http://www.busiweek.com/news/tanzani...-to-196m-tons-

[Geza Ulole]

Egypt to invest US$200 million in Tanzania sugar factory

Friday, 06 July 2012 09:49
An Egyptian investment firm has said it is close to signing a deal to invest US$200 million into a large Tanzanian sugar factory project

According to Daily News Egypt, the Egyptian African Investment Company will sign an agreement with the authorities in Tanzania within days to build the facility in Dar el-Salam.

The Egyptian Ambassador in Tanzania, Hossam El-Din Moharram, said the factory would help Tanzania meets domestic demand for sugar products, while the surplus produce would be exported to Egypt. Production at the factory has been scheduled to start in October 2014.

The Egypt government has also reached an agreement to supply solar power to two villages in Tanzania.

Moharram, who described the solar power facilities as a gift from the Egyptian people, said that the Tanzania government had chosen a village on an island in Lake Victoria and a village in the south of the country to receive the funding from Egypt.

http://www.africanreview.com/financi...=default&page=

MY TAKE
Such encouraging news we need more sugar! Tanzania has a capacity to supply sugar to the rest of EA region and the way the commodity is expensive we just need ten of this project to curb the inflation better

[kiligoland]

Originally Posted by Geza Ulole

Egypt to invest US$200 million in Tanzania sugar factory

Friday, 06 July 2012 09:49
An Egyptian investment firm has said it is close to signing a deal to invest US$200 million into a large Tanzanian sugar factory project

According to Daily News Egypt, the Egyptian African Investment Company will sign an agreement with the authorities in Tanzania within days to build the facility in Dar el-Salam.

The Egyptian Ambassador in Tanzania, Hossam El-Din Moharram, said the factory would help Tanzania meets domestic demand for sugar products, while the surplus produce would be exported to Egypt. Production at the factory has been scheduled to start in October 2014.

The Egypt government has also reached an agreement to supply solar power to two villages in Tanzania.

Moharram, who described the solar power facilities as a gift from the Egyptian people, said that the Tanzania government had chosen a village on an island in Lake Victoria and a village in the south of the country to receive the funding from Egypt.

http://www.africanreview.com/financi...=default&page=

MY TAKE
Such encouraging news we need more sugar! Tanzania has a capacity to supply sugar to the rest of EA region and the way the commodity is expensive we just need ten of this project to curb the inflation better

Great news, how about the recent forum with Kofi Anan. Hilary Clinton and jk in arusha, can we get more info about that? also more on kilimo kwanza

[Geza Ulole]

Originally Posted by kiligoland

Great news, how about the recent forum with Kofi Anan. Hilary Clinton and jk in arusha, can we get more info about that? also more on kilimo kwanza

kaka hii ni weakness ya magazeti yetu huwa yanajua kutoa picha tuu..bila ku-break the discussed issues into details! Mimi ni kama wewe nimeona picha tu za Melinda gates, Kikwete na Kofi Anan

[kiligoland]

Originally Posted by Geza Ulole

kaka hii ni weakness ya magazeti yetu huwa yanajua kutoa picha tuu..bila ku-break the discussed issues into details! Mimi ni kama wewe nimeona picha tu za Melinda gates, Kikwete na Kofi Anan

na mimi nimechemsha kumbe Melinda gates, mkuu halafu hata picha huwa wanamwacha msomaji ana mengi anataka aone, msomaji huwa hatoshelezwi, angalia uzinduzi wa. DART jangwani na uzinduzi wa daraja la kigamboni, chuo cha kijeshi, hata jengo lenyewe lile la Golden jubilee, yaani hata huonyeshwi kitu chenyewe kikoje, vitu robo robo tuu, yaani jangwani ndio wamenichefua kweli, shughuli yote ile wameishia kupiga picha ya rais juu ya grader au ni mimi tu ndio nataka kuona sana

[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania: KNCU Set to Withstand Challenges
Tagged: Agribusiness, Business, East Africa, Ecotourism, Infrastructure, Tanzania, Travel, Travel
BY PETER TEMBA, 30 JUNE 2012
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Moshi — KILIMANJARO Native Cooperative Union has set an ambitious strategic plan under which various projects will be implemented to make it a more viable entity to cope with highly competitive business environment worldwide, it was learnt here on Friday.

Addressing delegates to the 30th Annual KNCU conference, the Union's Chairman, Mr Maynard Swai said under the envisaged plan, the present headquarters of KNCU will undergo major rehabilitation to convert it into a four star hotel and relocate other offices elsewhere.

According to Mr Swai, KNCU management has approached African Development Bank with a view of persuading them for possible investment in the hotel project. He added that the Tanzania Investment Bank has agreed to finish construction of hotel apartments located adjacent to KNCU's Union Cafe along Florida Street, Moshi municipality.

He said plans were underway to introduce electric system under which farmers will receive money from coffee sales through VODACOM M-PESA facility, which will initially be introduced in a few primary cooperative societies and later in all 96 societies under the auspices of the Union, the oldest in Africa.

He said the facility was intended to save about 30mil/- initially spent on sending money to the societies by KNCU trucks and make it possible for coffee producers to access money accrued from coffee sales whenever the need arises.

The Union will this financial year construct 10 central pulperies units (CPU) in selected cooperative societies in a bid to promote coffee quality and persuade the government to set up rules and regulations to make it compulsory for farmers to pulp their coffee through CPU's.

Meanwhile, Mwika Kinyamvuo, Kirua Vunjo North and Shimbi Primary Cooperative Societies were awarded certificates and cash awards for adhering to good coffee production practices as each produced 115,673 kilogrammes; 79,960 kgs and 18,967 kgs of parchment coffee, respectively and received 1 mil/-, 750,000/- and 50,000/- respectively 500,000/=.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201207020135.html