TANZANIA: HUGE food crop surplus in Njombe, Iringa and Ruvuma Regions will increase foodstuff exports to needy African countries and raise prospects of realizing President Samia Hassan’s dream of ‘Tanzania can feed Africa’ by 2030.
Speaking here on Thursday during a two-day meeting seeking to increase crop production in the three regions, Njombe Regional Commissioner Antony Mtaki said a sharp increase in food and cash crops production in those regions is no longer a far-fetched idea but a probability if stakeholders will cooperate with the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) and help small farmers to adopt proper crop husbandry.
He said SAGCOT has enormous experience and ability to pull small farmers into conventional agricultural activities. The meeting was attended by representatives of the public and private sectors in the three regions. They reviewed progress made in implementing resolutions adopted in 2022 and adopted 2023 resolutions.
“Tanzania can feed Africa is President Samia’s dream and it is now a serious agenda of the government. SAGCOT is an experienced and delivering agricultural stakeholder. I hope SAGCOT understands President Samia on this agenda,” he quipped. The agenda entails raising production of food and cash crops and registering food crop surplus for export.
The RC said President Samia is very keen on increased crop production, explaining that that is why subsidized fertilizers are being distributed to farmers.
“The current political will to increase agricultural production is supported and defended by the president herself. She wants to see 68,000 bore holes drilled countrywide and dams created in appropriate places. This is a grand vision of the head of state. We, in Sagcot have to understand her well and help in realizing this vision,” he said.
SAGCOT’s Head of Clusters and Relations, Ms Maria Ijumba, reported that evaluation of 2022 efforts revealed that small holder farmers “increased by eight-fold — from 100,000 to 847,385.” She also said agricultural and livestock keeping activities have been instrumental in poverty alleviation, job creation and in attracting new investments.
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Unilever Tea Tanzania Limited (UTT) has invested a total of Sh18 billion in setting up a state-of-the-art tea processing factory at Njombe, the company said on Monday.
UTT Managing Director, Ashton Eastman, made the announcement, while addressing journalists who accompanied him to visit a tea farmers’ factory in Mufindi where the money was invested as part of the company’s implementation of the commitment that it made to the government, when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Agriculture in 2013.
After raising farmers’ incomes in Mufindi, the company now wants to replicate the same scheme in Njombe: “We want to build on the Mufindi experience,” he said.
According to Eastman, the factory was commissioned in March 2018. UTT has spent a total of SH18 billion (US$7.92 million); 70% of the green leaf will be supplied by small-scale farmers.
The money, he said, does not include what the company has invested in its 400-hectare Njombe estate, which provides the remaining 30% of the factory’s green leaf requirements.
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500 Catechists drawn from 47 parishes of Njombe Diocese attended a symposium as a way of celebrating 150 years Jubilee of Evangelization in Tanzania.
Speaking during a three day symposium conducted from 2nd to 5th, July, 2018, Njombe Bishop Alfred Maluma said he was so impressed by the participation of catechist whom he termed as agents of evangelization in the world.
“Your activeness, readiness in teaching Catechism to our people make the church more strong. You have a great mission and do it without complains, sacrifice yourselves so that the Gospel can be preached in families, small Christian communities and many others.
Bishop Maluma encouraged the Catechists to talk to apostolic parties in their clusters and to continue the missionary work that was entrusted to them 150 years ago by the missionaries. “The main task of Catholicism is to oversee and defend the Catholic faith as it did to the first missionaries. Now it’s our turn,” said the Bishop
Speaking at the same event, Chairman of the Catechism Department in Njombe Diocese, Bruno Henjewele thanked the Catechists for their active participation at the conference adding that catechists have enough knowledge of the Church’s teaching.
Henjewele said that, Catechism is an essential and basic tool for teaching theology. “The Catechism gives us the basis for the teaching of our faith. Without Catechism the Catechism mission is worthless,” he said.
During their symposium, Catechists learned a number of things, including the Catechism mission and the limitations, Jesus Christ-the cult of the Catechism and the missionary,
The Apostle Paul – The Catechism of the Nations, The Missionary – the catechism model,
The Catechism mission and Catechism of the Catholic Church. In addition, they have been taught Entrepreneurship, economics and finances, since the catechism has to deal with entrepreneurship in one way or another.
FIVE people including a child aged between eight to nine years have died and several others injured following the tragic car crash that happened in Igando village, Wanging’ombe District in Njombe Region on Wednesday.
According to Njombe Regional Police Commander (RPC) John Imori, the accident involved bus christened New Force with registration number T173 DZU heading to Rukwa Region from Dar es Salaam after it veered off the road and plunged into a ditch.
RPC Imori said that preliminary cause of the accident was recklessness of the bus driver who was overtaking a truck without taking necessary precautions.
“The bus was coming from Dar es Salaam heading to Rukwa Region when it arrived at Igando village, where the bus driver attempted to overtake the truck on the bridge…he lost control and hit the bridge perimeter before the bus took a plunge into the ditch
“At the moment (yesterday) we are at the scene of the incident, we do not know the exact number of casualties but we have five dead bodies including four men and one child,” he said.
The RPC said the causalities have been taken to Ilembula Mission Hospital in Njombe.
He said police force was still investigating the cause of the incident.
AS the government has significantly increased agriculture budget, sunflower farmers in Southern Highlands regions, particularly Njombe, Mbeya and Songwe have asked the government to continue involving various agricultural stakeholders in providing education on the use of quality seeds to increase production of such strategic crop.
In the 2023/24 the ministry’s budget has increased to 970.8bn/- up from 751.1bn/- in the previous year, which is an increase by 29.24 per cent.
“Education on the use of quality seeds is of great importance to us as it will lead to positive results in production, so the government must continue to partner with various agricultural stakeholders to strengthen the provision of education among farmers,” a resident of Wanging’ombe village in Njombe region, Ms Browness Chengula, appealed.
The residents made the plea on Friday during a media tour organised by the Agricultural Markets Development Trust (AMDT).
AMDT that was established by the governments of Denmark, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland, has organised the tour to visit various strategic partners and beneficiaries of sunflower seeds project in Southern Highland regions.
The visit is part of assessment of the impact of its 5bn/- investment in facilitating various interventions intended to transform sunflower and pulses sub-sectors in the country.
In particular, Ms Chengula encouraged other small famers in the country to use quality researched seeds to increase productivity and raise their income.
“I encourage the farmers to stop ‘business as usual’ and instead use researched and quality seeds to increase the production…quality seeds are more beneficial than traditional ones,” she said.
In related development, she asked the government to ensure the extension officers visit small farmers regularly so that they can identify various challenges facing them in order to find solutions.
Ms Chengula’s comment was in line with other AMDT beneficiaries at Mayale village of Njombe region.
Ms Zuhura Mpinga, an owner of sunflower and maize mill, also underscored the importance of using quality seeds.
“For a farmer who uses quality seeds of an average of 100 kg, he or she can process 40 litres of pure sunflower oil, unlike the local seed, which can only extract 24 litres of pure oil from the same kilogrammes,” she underlined.
TANZANIA Agricultural Seeds Agency (ASA) to enter into a special production cooperation with Makete District in Njombe Region for the mass production of wheat.
The cooperation primarily eyes to increase availability of wheat in the country, in this growing season, ASA has rolled out at least 80 tonnes of improved wheat seeds, worth at 340m/- to support growers in the district to heighten their production and productivity.
According to ASA’s seeds production manager, Dr Justin Ringo, the state-owned seed Agency was working to curtail shortage of wheat in the country.
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data shows that Tanzania’s annual domestic wheat consumption is estimated at more than 1 million tonnes per year, while total annual production stands at around 93,184 tonnes. This means that Tanzania imports about 90 per cent of the wheat it consumes.
The ministry of agriculture had specifically embarked on a fresh move aimed to revive and improve production of wheat in the country.
Being among potential economic cash crops within the country, wheat has been mostly grown by smallholder farmers in the Northern regions, specifically in Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Manyara.
According to the Agriculture Minister, Hussein Bashe, the ministry is working tooth and nail to help support improvement of the vital economic sector.
He said, being at the ministry’s wheat major pilot project, the agricultural experts from the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) are teaming up with their counterparts from the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) in conducting professional soil testing at Makete District, Njombe region.
“The undergoing process focuses to determine areas within the district were wheat can thrive,” he informed.
He moreover said the exercise will see a huge number of farmers within the district imparted with best agronomic principles for the professional cultivation of the crop.
Police in Tanzania have arrested 65 witchdoctors doctors suspected of involvement in the barbaric ritualistic killings of children in the south-west and northern part of the country
This follows the murder of at least 10 children in Njombe region and other similar incidents in the northern Simiyu region in late January
and 20 others from Njombe are being held for interrogation over the spate of heinous killings
Inspector General of Police Simon Sirro told reporters
The police boss further said the crackdown on traditional doctors
who are the prime suspects in the ritualistic killings
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Superstition is deep-rooted among some communities in Tanzania
who believe human body parts can bring wealth
Albinos are among those targeted by assailants who kill them or chop off their limbs and private parts
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the Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Rev
Eusebia Kyando to be Local Ordinaries for the Catholic Dioceses of Bukoba and Njombe
“Bishop Elect Jovitus Mwijage was born on December 2
After his priesthood formation he was ordained a priest on July 20
1997 in Bukoba diocese and served in various mission positions in Bukoba and the TEC as Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS)” stated
Bishop-elect Mwijage has served as Assistant Parish Priest of Mwemage Parish
he was sent by the Catholic Diocese of Bukoba to further his studies and thus obtain a PhD in Church history in 2012
Between 2011-2012 he was a teacher of Church history
From 2012 to 2023 he was appointed as the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
He got his primary education in Unenamwa school (1976-1982)
He received secondary education at the Minor Seminary of St
He continued with philosophy and theology studies at Saint Augustine Major Seminary-Peramiho in the Catholic Archdiocese of Songea
TANZANIA expects to produce more than three million tonnes of coal in three regions of Njombe
This was revealed on Tuesday by the Tanzania Mining Commission (TMC) Executive Secretary
in Dodoma when speaking with the media about the contribution of the mining sector in improving community services
“The production of coal has increased significantly as the government has been able to produce coal from 1.5 million tonnes in the financial year 2020/21 to 1.56 million tonnes in the half of the financial year 2022/23,” said Engineer Samamba
Eng Samamba said during the financial year 2021/22 the government was able to produce 1.5 million tonnes of coal worth 211 million US dollars of which more than 800,000 tonnes were sold abroad and more than 60,000 tonnes were sold within the country and used in cement factories
He also added that due to the instructions given by the Minister of Minerals Dr Doto Biteko at the meeting with mining stakeholders in the country last year
there has been a great awareness of mining companies where jobs and services in mines have been provided to natives and community services have been improved
mining companies were providing community services according to their priorities
but after the government instructions along with the education that has been provided by the experts of the Mining Commission regarding the participation of Tanzanians in the Mining Sector
great results have started to be seen within community,” said Samamba
Eng Samamba has said that apart from that participation
the mining companies have also been involving the government on behalf of the people to identify projects that are a priority for the people before their implementation,” said Eng Samamba
“The government through the Mining Commission has continued to create an enabling environment for coal investors including the improvement of infrastructure such as roads
and electricity in collaboration with other government institutions,” he said
he added that coal has been transported through Mtwara Port to foreign countries with the largest purchases made by India
Poland and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Eng Samamba has asked foreign investors to take advantage of the immense investment opportunities in the Mining Sector
especially in the Njombe Region where copper
THE Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) has launched legal aid services in Njombe region with the aim of enhancing people’s access to justice and protecting rights of the most vulnerable members of society
The services that will be provided for a week were launched on Monday as part of the LHRC’s 27th-anniversary celebrations
“We chose to come to Njombe region because
as the centre was developing its work plan for 2019-2024
it revealed a significant need for legal aid services in the Southern Highlands
“The legal services that will be provided during the one week spell include child care disputes
as well as some of the prisons that they will visit
LHRC was established in 1995 as a non-governmental
non-partisan and not-for-profit sharing organisation
with the purpose of working to empower and sensitize the people of Tanzania on legal and human rights
approximately 540,000 people have been reached
the LHRC has successfully resolved many disputes
Njombe Regional Administrative Secretary (RAS)
said that legal aid plays an important role in every community as it will assist them with their legal issues when the need arises
Acting Njombe Regional Police Commander (RPC)
Assistant Commissioner of Police Butusyo Mwambelo said community members should not be afraid to get legal aid as it will equip them with the necessary information that will reduce the number of incidents of sexual violence and killings in the region
say a lack of legal education is causing murders and extreme violence due to land and property disputes
The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice adopted a resolution on access to legal aid in criminal justice systems in 2012
The resolution adopted a set of principles and guidelines designed to ensure that access to legal information
advice and assistance is available to all through the provision of legal aid—thus realizing rights for the poor and marginalized and entrenching one of the key building blocks of a fair
humane and efficient criminal justice system
Mr Exaud Kigahe has said that the government will soon revamp Njombe Milk Factory Company Limited
The move is meant to address the increasing needs of dairy and its products as well as growing market and economic well-being of the shareholders and cattle keepers
Kigahe gave the clarification in response to the basic question asked by Njombe Urban MP Deodatus Mwanyika (CCM) on what plans the government has to revamp the factory
He said revamping processes are being carried out through Njombe Regional authorities to engage shareholders
“The government will soon take action to revamp the company and I must assure you (Member of Parliament) that Njombe milk diary will soon start operations” said Deputy Minister
Njombe Milk factory clinched a 696m/-loan facility from state-owned development finance institution
Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) to launch an additional rescue package for the company
According to TADB’s Acting Director of Credit and Business
Njombe Milk Factory project is on a growth trajectory and would soon start paying dividends to its shareholders
Ms Mengele urged the management of the factory to work diligently to develop and roll out new products
which will easily be sold to the market given Njombe’s strategic advantage of serving Lindi
Ruvuma regions and regional markets of Malawi and Mozambique
The bank supported in facilitating payments to farmers
rehabilitating the factory’s infrastructure and managerial assistance
TABD support to the factory intends to ensure the factory reaches its full capacity utilisation of 20,000 litres per day from the current 3,000 litres
The main shareholders of Njombe Milk Factory are Njombe Livestock Farmers Organisation (NJOLIFA) which owns 20 per cent shares
Njombe Local Government Authority with 19 per cent stake and the Roman Catholic Njombe 9.7per cent
THE construction of a 36.3 kms Kitulo-Iniho road in Njombe Region is expected to open up various socio-economic opportunities and improve people’s livelihoods
The road section is part of Isonje-Kikondo (km 92.6) road which connects Njombe and Mbeya regions
thus linking Tanzania with its neighboring countries
Speaking on Wednesday during the contract signing for the first phase construction of the 36.3kms section from Kitulo to Inihio
Prof Makame Mbarawa said the project will attract more tourists and facilitate movement of people and goods
The signing of the contract was held between the government and China National Aero-technology International Engineering Corporation (AVIC-ENG)
“This road will help to reduce time for transporting farm and forest produce and also ease the movement of tourists visiting Kitulo National Park,” Prof Mbarawa said
He added that the road will also enable various industrial commodities from within and outside the country to reach the area at affordable prices
he noted that the road infrastructure will be an important link between Njombe and Mbeya regions through Kikondo and Kitulo National Park
He added: “The construction of the Kitulo-Iniho road (36.3 km) will involve the construction of weighbridges
the government decided to start with the 36.3 kms because the area poses inconveniences during rainy seasons
thus its completion will be of great help to Makete and Njombe residents because it is an important link to Mbeya
In the road that is part of many road projects being implemented through government funding
Prof Mbarawa further directed TANROAD to oversee its implementation to ensure efficiency and value for money
He also urged Njombe residents to cooperate with the contractor and ensure safety of construction materials so that the project can be executed within the agreed time
Chief Executive Officer Engineer Rogatus Mativila said the road construction tender was announced in March 2022
where five bids were received and evaluated and show the Chinese contractor
Anthony Mtaka said Kitulo National Park with flower and bird attractions is the part of hidden Tanzania’s attractions
especially in the Royal Tour phase II program by President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan
He said that the construction of the road will promote tourism in the Njombe region through the National Park
where tourists can easily enter through Mbeya or Njombe
“Although this road will connect economic and social activities in Njombe and Mbeya regions
it will promote tourism by facilitating the entry of tourists through the road in the regions,” he said
he invited businessmen from various regions to invest in Makete District
because the road is going to open up the area
Makete Member of Parliament Festo Sanga said Chama cha Mapinduzi has fulfilled its pledge of building Makete -Mbeya road which is in their Election Manifesto
He said the government has implemented various projects in Makete district including the construction of health centres
construction of classrooms and a modern district office
Dar es Salaam: THE government has directed the Regional Commissioners (RCs) to ensure that citizens have timely access to daily weather forecast information to enable them to take precautionary measures against the damages which may be caused by the ongoing torrential rains in the country
According to a statement issued yesterday by the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG)
the RCs are required to ensure that the weather forecast information reaches Wananchi timely up to the hamlet level so that they can be prepared of possible impacts especially during this season when most parts of the country experience rain above average
Minister of State in the President’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government) Mr Mohamed Mchengerwa (pictured) also directed both regional and LGAs secretariats to provide guidance to the citizens
especially those living in areas affected by rains in order to take safety precautions
“All regional secretariat leaders and Local Government Authorities should advise citizens
particularly those residing in areas impacted by rains
to take all necessary safety precautions,’ the minister said in the statement
Mr Mchengerwa also encouraged parents and guardians to be careful and take safety precautions for students going to and from schools especially in areas affected by rains
Mr Mchengerwa urged parents and guardians to exercise caution and take safety measures when sending their children to and from school
particularly in areas that may experience heavy rains
the minister said the government is continuing to make efforts to restore the infrastructures damaged by the ongoing rains to allow citizens to carry on with their regular economic activities
The Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) had warned of a heavy downpour in eight regions for three consecutive days from Monday this week
“Expected impacts are localized floods over few areas and disruption of some economic activities,” the TMA said in the statement issued on Monday evening over the weather forecast report for five days in a week
But most parts of the country have already been experiencing heavy rains since November last year
TMA had forecasted that 14 regions in the country would be receiving normal to above normal rainfall during the rainy season from November 2023 to April 2024
In its weather forecast report for this season last November
TMA said the torrential rains could lead to excessive soil moisture
Also read: TMA: Brace for another five-day heavy rains
The affected regions include the southern part of Morogoro
Singida and Dodoma; the northern part of Kigoma
Mar 14 2013 (IPS) - The fruit farmers in Njombe
a small town in the coastal Littoral Region of Cameroon
learned a life lesson about “making lemonade out of lemons” – or rather “dried fruit out of fruit” when their land was taken from them by the government and leased to an international farming company
34 fruit farmers lost 70 hectares of their land to Plantation de Haut Penja (PHP)
a subsidiary of French company Compagnie Fruitiere
to which the Cameroonian government leased 4,500 hectares of land to grow bananas
thanks to the assistance and loans from the local NGO the Network for the Fight against Hunger (RELUFA)
the farmers were able to purchase farmland in Njombe
The NGO also assisted the farmers with loans to buy fertilisers and chemicals and organised them in a cooperative called the Common Initiative Group (CIG) Esperance
Bika Sadi is one of the farmers who has been growing bananas
pineapples and papaya on his new land and selling it to the dried fruit manufacturing business that RELUFA set up in 2009
“We supply our products at set prices to the dried fruit project
A kilogramme of fresh papaya is sold at less than 20 cents on the local market
And a kilogramme of fresh banana and pineapple sell for 10 cents on the local market but the project buys them for 24 cents,” Sadi told IPS
But it was born out of failed attempts by the farmers to obtain compensation for the loss of their land
The farmers took PHP to the Wouri High Court in Douala in 2005
and after five court appearances over three years
the company and the farmers reached an out-of-court settlement in 2008
only 28,000 of the 120,000 dollars promised in the negotiations were paid to the farmers
The dried fruit packaging is clear about the reasons for the business
The label reads: “Fair Fruit is grown by Cameroonian farmers who were forced off their land by a transnational company seeking to establish its vast plantations
The fruit is cultivated and harvested in a just and environmentally friendly manner and traded under fair terms”
manages the project that employs 10 people to work in the small processing plant built by RELUFA
“The workers in this plant earn 2.50 dollars a day for five hours of work
which is a modest income for a youth who has the rest of the day for other activities,” Mahatma told IPS
The dried fruit is packaged and then distributed to supermarkets
“We also sell the product to potential buyers through trade fairs and agro-pastoral shows,” Michelle Danleu
Fair Fruit’s sales and marketing officer
The profits have been ploughed back into the project and will fund a second phase
In a country where an increasing number of smallholders have been forced off their land
the expansion of the project could help many more farmers like the ones in Njombe
“Fair Fruit … could also tell the story of other marginalised farmers all over Cameroon,” Jaff Bamenjo
“We are concerned about the new wave of investments in land and the negative impact on local food production and rural communities’ access to land,” Bamenjo added
According to a 2012 Food and Agricultural Organization report titled “Investment Policy Support
Foreign Agricultural Investment Profile Cameroon”
the general foreign direct investment inflow into Cameroon was less than 113 million dollars in the 1990s
While there are no official figures on foreign agricultural investment in Cameroon
the report notes that some 48 percent of Cameroon’s population depend on agriculture for a living
Even the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is concerned about the number of large agricultural plantations in the country that have pushed smallholders off their land
“Large plantations have a negative effect not only on local food production and supply
but they also affect the social economy of the locality where they exist
Added to the fact that most local farmers are usually evicted from farm lands
the farmers in most cases are restricted from farming close to the boundaries of plantations for fear that they might steal from the plantation farms,” Collette Ekobo
the agriculture inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Ekobo evaluates the performance of agricultural services
rural productivity and development in the sector and has authority to represent the ministry’s views
“The complaints from farmers (kicked off their land) have been overwhelming in the Littoral and Southwest Region of the country
where most plantations are located,” she said
adding that she was unable to provide figures for the number of farmers affected
She said the country’s current land tenure system “does not protect the interests of the locals who have been using these lands since the time of their forefathers.”
The land tenure system in Cameroon makes it difficult for private individuals to acquire title deeds
74/1 on land tenure stipulates that private land must be titled and registered
All remaining land is classified as national land
obtaining a land right certificate is a costly and long administrative procedure
from the Centre for Environment and Development
told IPS that as a result most villagers had no formal land titles to their customary agricultural land
“Land agreements given to large companies do not respect customary land rights or informal land holdings
The laws and the institutions in place do not protect their interests,” he said
An inter-ministerial committee from the Ministry of State Property and Land Tenure is currently revising the land tenure law
and a bill will be introduced in parliament
But civil society groups complain that the process has not been participatory
Nguiffo added that there was an assumption that foreign investors created more jobs than local smallholders
“If communities are given support through access to land
capital and technical assistance you will see them create jobs and wealth and contribute to national development more sustainably than large companies,” he said
PHP finally agreed to pay out the remainder of the settlement to the Njombe farmers
but it could have had something to do with the labels on the dried fruit
“As a precondition for the company to pay this money
they said we must remove the message that is on Fair Fruit packages
The farmers have agreed to this condition,” Bamenjo said