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The gift that spoke at a recent cotton stakeholder workshop, said the support program was vital in providing smallholder farmers with agricultural inputs to increase productivity.
"It is high time that the government borrows Zimbabwe's Presidential Input Scheme or the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) to revive cotton cultivation," said the agricultural economist at the US Food and Agriculture Organization. workshop, organized by the Agricultural Council of Tanzania (ACT).
Presentation of a paper on effective regulation of cotton Prof. Kadigi, of Industry in Tanzania, said the Support Mechanism to Agricultural Inputs or Agricultural Marketing Authority would ensure better market coordination along the value chain of cotton growing.
Timoth Mmbaga, Director of Policy, Planning and Advocacy, among the best producers of cotton in Africa , claiming that the country has even foiled Burkina Faso, which currently dominates the continent
"We have decided to organize this high-level workshop which involves stakeholders from key sectors. and public to discuss ways to improve cotton productivity in Tanzania, "he said. agriculture to take measures to revive the sector, a move that he believes would play an important role in promoting the industrial dynamics that the government of the fifth phase needed so much.
General Manager of the Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB), Marco Mtunga, attributed the poor situation to the introduction of a free market in which cotton producers had the habit of contracting with different local and foreign companies who bought their crops.
He observed that the government by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries have already embarked on a new special program and policies aimed at restoring the status of Tanzanian cotton in the global market.
"From now on, all cotton will be marketed by farmers through the Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Societies (AMCOS) .Thus, we will improve the sector," he said.
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