Hotel grading set for July
2005
By Business Correspondent
Tanzania hotel grading and classification system is set to begin in July 2005
should all stakeholders agree upon the suggested criteria.
Kimonge Oriyo one of the five experts from Tanzania in the East Africa panel of
experts for setting hotel classification, said the government wants the system
to start in one region, which will be determined later—preferably, Dar es Salaam
or Arusha.
“We cannot begin to grade all facilities at a go. We have to start somewhere and
later move on,” Oriyo said. The panel consist of 15 members; five members from
each of the three countries working under the auspices of East Africa Community
representing private sector.
He said hotel grading would help market Tanzania tourists’ facilities and put
pricing on international level.
Classification will also allow travellers to predetermine the type and quality
standard offered by hotels, bed-and-breakfast outfits, guest lodges and even
camping sites, he added.
The new regulation will replace the outdated 1984 regulation, which did not have
stars grading criteria.
“Tanzania hoteliers took advantage of the old regulation vacuum and classified
individually. (But) once the grading starts their stars would be scraped off,”
said Oriyo.
According to Oriyo Tanzania at the moment does not have a five-star hotel, most
are probably three stars. The Kilimanjaro Hotel privatised to a Libya based firm
is reconstructed to conform to five-star requirements.
But before grading starts hoteliers want some criteria to be included or removed
to have a smooth implementation of the exercise.
Chairman of Hotel Keepers Association of Tanzania (HKAT), Damas Mfugale, told
this reporter that: “for the regional broader objectives, we (HKAT) recommend
that the South Africa grading system is also used as among the terms of
reference.”
HKAT among other thing wants: “the classification to be voluntary and not
mandatory whose primary purpose is as a marketing tool and incentive to ensure
that the accommodation products complies with international standards.”
But the coming hotel grading regulation, according to Oriyo, will make the
grading in Tanzania mandatory and later on, as classification is a dynamic
phenomenal, the regulation may be changed to voluntary basis.
The government proposed that an independent company should do the grading and
itself be an authority board where companies in the hotel industry could appeal
if they thought justice was not done upon classification.
Up to 2002 Tanzania hotel and similar establishment has 10,525 rooms and 18,945
bed-places. In 2003 the country earned US$ 731 million (Tsh. 731 billion) from
576,000 tourists.
Investments on right track
By Business Correspondent
Tanzania Investment Centre has registered 209 projects in the first half of this
year, compared to 372 in the whole of last year.
“Our estimates are based on last year’s performance. Following from that we
target to register about 350 project this year (2004), the trend is so far
encouraging,” TIC’s Director-Investment Facilitation, Salvator Ntomola, told
this reporter.
He said based on the performance realised on January-June 2004, the target would
be passed by far. This portrayed that investors are confident to invest in
Tanzania.
The increase has been experienced every year since 2000, were 178 projects was
registered.
Ntomola said the good performance is the result of government initiative of
creating a favourable investment environment for local and foreign investors and
the new foreign policy of economic diplomacy where ambassadors and high
commissioners are seeking investors.
Other measures taken to boost investment include the National Business Council
(NBC) which has called various meetings with the business sector to discuss
obstacles pertaining they daily business; National Investment Secretariat
Committee (NISC) under the Prime Minister which has sought to intervene when
conflict of interest arise when a project spans to more than one government
ministry or department; and Investors Round Table (IRT) which has met to suggest
ways forward.
Removing bureaucracy has cut down the number of days taken to register an
investment. “If documentation are in order it only takes less than seven days to
receive the registration certificate,” said Ntomola.
According to the TIC statistics the 209 investments worth Tsh. 597.14 million
created 25,793 jobs. Out of the number of the projects registered, 97 projects
are local, 66 joint ventures and 46 foreign investments.
GDP growth fairly high
By Timothy Kitundu
Tanzania recorded a relatively high GDP growth rate compared to Kenya and Uganda
last year, according to the Bank of Tanzania economic bulletin for the quarter
ending December 2003.
Also the rate of inflation of 4.6 per cent attained during the quarter ending
December 2003 was lower than the rates of 8.8 per cent and 6.3 per cent recorded
in Kenya and Uganda respectively.
Recently, the Minister of State President’s Office (Planning and Privatisation),
Dr. Abdallah Kigoda said that the impressive achievement of the robust growth is
attributed partly to the correct privatisation policies the country has carried
out.
He said Tanzania moved from one per cent growth rate in the 1980’s to the
present rate of between six and seven per cent.
Adding that before privatisation, the state companies overburdened the nation
hence stunting the growth because the state spent over Tsh. 21 billion in
subsidizing the loss-making state companies.
According to Dr. Kigoda, the selling of the loss-making state companies has
lifted the fetters that hampered growth and the government has already collected
Tsh. 1,150 billion from the sales of state companies and in taxes.
In the SADC region, according to the bulletin, Tanzania emerged second by
recording a 5.5 per cent growth rate, trailing Malawi which recorded 6.5 per
cent in the period under review while South Africa registered the lowest growth
rate of 2.2 per cent.
In the region, inflation declined in almost all countries except in Malawi where
it went up by 0.6 percentage points above the previous quarter level of 9.0 per
cent.
South Africa registered the lowest rate of inflation while Zambia’s rate of
inflation of 19.1 per cent was the highest in the region.
In terms of growth, all countries registered increases in real GDP growth except
in South Africa where growth declined by 0.8 percentage points.
Food prices on the rise
By Angela Mazula
Retailer and wholesale prices of foodstuffs, particular cereals in various
market centres in Dar es Salaam have slightly increased in the past two weeks.
According to The Express survey done during the weekend in Mwenge, Tandale,
Magomeni, Temeke, Kawe Tabata and Kinondoni the prices of foodstuff had changed
compared to last month.
At Magomeni and Tandale the prices of beans, rice, maize flour, sugar, cooking
oils and vegetables such as tomatoes, onions and Irish potatoes have doubled.
For example, one kg of maize flour costs between Tsh. 300 and Tsh. 350, up from
Tsh. 250, while prices of beans (soya) have risen to Tsh. 550 from Tsh, 400. per
kg.
Hamisi Salum trader at Tandale said many of the buyers find commodities to be
too expensive. Still the demand was steady.
A reliable source at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security confirmed
that foodstuff prices are on the rise in Dar es Salaam and Coast Region due to
the condition of the granary store.
Mineral exploration
encouraging
By Business Correspondent
The results of Mibango’s platinum group metal exploration on the eastern shore
of Lake Tanganyika, in Kigoma Region “is very encouraging”; enabling the release
of US$ 2.5 million (Tsh. 2.5 billion) for further testing.
The Exploration Manager of Goldstream Mining, Rob Edwards said the joint venture
partner Lonmin Plc, the British platinum giant, has allocated the said budget to
the project.
Edwards who visited Tanzania and comes from Australia said it is hard to predict
the outcome of the exploration but so far the “results are very encouraging and
we will be sure of mineralisation in three years to come.”
“This year’s field programme has commenced with diamond drilling and EM
geophysical surveys currently in progress,” Edwards said. The fund released
would enable the third exploration for the past three years.
Platinum is a silvery-grey precious metal used in making expensive jewellery and
in industry.
Due to the project’s remoteness, the firm was permitted to construct a 2,000m x
100m airstrip next to the camp in Mibango; its construction has commenced. The
area is impassable during the rainy season.
Goldstream’s most advanced projects are in Tanzania. The Mibango platinum group
metals (PGM) and associated metals and minerals exploration project is in joint
venture with Lonmin, as is the Luwumbu platinum/nickel/copper discovery some 600
km to the South East of Tanzania.
Exploration to date has identified three styles of mineralisation. The 2004
drill programme of 16,000m will target stacked platinum reefs, the overlying
lateritic nickel/platinum deposit and massive nickel sulphide targets that may
also have a platinum group metals component.
Further drilling of this zone and of an estimated 12 km of untested reef will
form part of this season’s programme. The massive nickel sulphide potential is
evidenced by a chance intersection of 2.10m at 3.03 per cent nickel.
The Mibango laterite nickel/platinum mineralisation has been partially tested by
broad spaced drilling. Further drilling to determine size and grade parameters
as well as metallurgical characteristics are planned for this year.
During the 2003 field season, from late June to November, the joint venture
spent US$ 3.7 million (Tsh. 3.7 billion) to drill a total of 10,000 m of diamond
core and 6,000 m of shallow air core.
According to Goldstream the exploration programme carried out at Mibango was
designed to test the variability of grade and thickness of mineralised reefs
over potential 35 km strike length of the intusive.
Platinum exploration on Tanzania began in 1950 where 18 diamond holes where
completed in northern Makambo area in Kigoma, but the mining of the mineral did
not go ahead for years as part of a general trend of the time, when the mining
sector took a back seat in Tanzanian economy.
Agroforestry proves successful
By Timothy Kitundu
Four villages in Musoma rural districts practising under the Vi-Agroforestry
Farming Project have almost doubled their crop yield from 450 kg, when
practising monocropping, to 870 kg per acre.
A recent study conducted by Jonathan Mbwambo of the Sokoine University of
Agriculture released during the Second Worldwide Symposium on Gender and
Forestry, indicates that maize harvested from agroforestry farming provided a
household with an income of between Tsh. 82,100 and Tsh. 104,500 per acre per
season.
According to the study, with regard to soil fertility, agroforestry practices
are able to ensure an adequate supply of essential mineral nutrients in the soil
and are able to maintain favourable physical soils.
“Owing to the presence of trees, nutrient cycle under agroforestry is quite
different from monocropping system. For example, litter falling from trees
returns the nutrients stored above the ground biomass to the soil,” reads part
of the study.
Mbwambo told The Express that of the four villages where the study was
conducted, the household income from maize sales previously stood at between
Tsh. 54,600 and Tsh. 58,900 per acre per season.
According to Mbwambo, through the efforts of Vi-Agroforestry Project, the
majority of the farmers adopted agroforestry-farming practices. He named the
main practices adopted by the farmers as alley cropping, improved fallows,
boundary and scattered trees.
He said agroforestry farming in this study seemed to improve food availability
and income, providing more profits to subsistence farming households in
comparison to non-agroforestry farming systems, on top of other economic and
social benefits.
Structural adjustment
scrutinised
By Timothy Kitundu
The structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) which commenced in the mid 1980’s on
conditions and recommendations by the World Bank (WB) and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) have greatly affected the most vulnerable members of
society, the women.
In a book titled Gender Budget Analysis in Tanzania (1997-2000) reviewed by
Murna Hersi working on an internship with Tanzania Gender Networking Programme
(TGNP) SAPs have had great negative impact on people.
In the review of the said book, which is published by TGNP (2004), Hersi makes a
critical analysis. The author argues for homegrown transformations, which
address structural gender inequalities as they affect Tanzania’s economy and
social relations at all levels of society.
“The Gender Budgeting Initiative (GBI) is the first of its kind in Tanzania and
it argues that if effective and appropriate decisions are to be made, then
everyone, men and women should be involves,” reads part of the review.
The GBI, according to Hersi, advocates for equitable resources allocation for
all groups in Tanzania in accordance with their own articulated needs and
priorities - the GBI is a call for budgeting for the people and with the people.
The book sets up groundwork guidelines to help the Tanzanian decision-makers
identify what should be done and how from a perspective of equal participation,
with a gender sensitive approach in the decision-making process.
Further topics discussed includes why a gender budget analysis is needed, its
background and its conception; the roles of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and
the Planning Commission; the health situation and burden of diseases to women
and girls extending beyond the issues of reproduction.
Also highlighted is the fact that the proportion of female students enrolled at
the UDSM gets lower every year.
The book also brings up gender analysis in the agricultural sector and the
different consequences of resource allocation as well the industry and commerce
sectors with a focus on the national and sectoral levels.
Mainland unaffected by poultry
ban
By Angela Mazula
While Zanzibar Isles are facing the shortage of poultry products—chicken and
eggs—due to the banning of South African chickens, Tanzania Mainland is still
enjoying the products.
The Minister for Livestock Development and Water, Edward Lowassa last week
banned importation of chickens from South Africa following the bird flu disease
that has hit the poultry industry.
The effect of the ban has been seen in the Isles with shortage of chickens and
eggs and increased prices. However, in the Mainland the poultry business is
still calm, according to The Express Survey.
There was no rush at the Kisutu Market—the chicken centre—where the prices of
chickens has been stable since last year. The Chairman of Association of
Businessmen at the Market (UWASOKI), Emil Kavishe said, “There is no change at
our business and since we don’t depend much on the importation of chickens like
Zanzibar, maybe we will experience it later, after one month or more than that.”
Not only is the business stable in terms of prices, the supply is also stable as
the market receives about 1,000 chicken per day that are sold in the range of
Tsh. 1,500 to 2,000, according to Kavishe.
Kavishe was not alone in being unaffected by the ban. Some of the international
hotels are still provided poultry by local suppliers. Steers Fast Food
Restaurant Manager, Emmanuel Teveli supported Kavishe by saying: “We depend much
from local supply and when there is shortage in Dar es Salaam, we order from
Arusha, so we are not yet affected by the ban.” The same information was
obtained from hotels like Holiday Inn and New Africa hotel.
On average, the Holiday Inn uses about 80-100 kg of chickens per week, while New
Africa use 70 kg per day and Steers Fast Food Restaurant use 1,500-2,000 kg of
chicken per month.
'Trade negotiation skills
vital'
By Fakih Yussuf Mohammed,
Zanzibar
Tanzania and other developing countries have to strive towards very specific
goals regarding the multilateral trading system.
Principal Secretary in Zanzibar Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism Perera
Ame Silima, said this on behalf of the Permanent Secretary in the said Ministry
during a course on trade negotiation skills held at Bwawani Hotel.
He said Tanzania and its allies have to know its situation and develop clear
positions on all issues at stake.
It is important to develop strong ties between other developing nations in the
negotiations, according to Silima. Building on consensus reached at national
level would facilitate this.
“In this regard, we need to recapitulate on the national development goals and
objectives, the current situation in Tanzania and how this should feed into the
negotiations processes in multilateral trade negotiations” he noted.
Explaining on different trade agreements, he said that the only difference
between the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the Doha Development
Agenda is that the former are primarily a regional arrangement between the
European Union (EU) and Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries (APC), whereas
the Doha Agenda involves the 148 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
More importantly, the EAPs have to conform with the obligation of compatibility
to the WTO agreements.
He said the recently ended WTO talks, reached an agreement regarding a framework
of modalities for negotiations on the Doha Work Programme, which provides
guidelines for undertaking actual negotiations on the key issues. These include
agriculture, non-agricultural market access, service Singapore issues, rules and
development issues.
The course was organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism and
sponsored by WTO and DANIDA.
World Bank remarks on
economic growth
By Timothy Kitundu
The World Bank (WB) has named Tanzania as one among eight African countries
whose economies have been growing at a rate of over five per cent per year,
attributing the success to the fight against graft in business and politics.
The other African countries mentioned alongside Tanzania are Uganda, Mozambique,
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Rwanda and Madagascar. However, the WB says
there is a need to accelerate the growth rate all across Africa and there are a
number of countries where this is possible.
A monthly press review availed to The Express by the Economic Journalists
Network for Africa quoted Callisto Madavo, the WB Vice President for Africa,
saying early this week that the world’s most underdeveloped continent would
continue to lag behind the rest of the world if democracy and good economic
governance were not entrenched.
“My hope is that in the African countries where they have conflict or other
problems...the people from within these countries can bring about change and
create a better world for all of us,” Madavo said.
Madavo said he was optimistic Africa’s economy would grow as there was a general
change of attitude on the continent, with people pushing for private sector
participation in the economy and greater accountability.
“One thing that is encouraging is that there is a much stronger demand (from)
people for better governance in Africa (and also) much stronger demand for
fighting corruption,” said Madavo who will retire in October to take the post of
senior special advisor to the WB president.
Plans afoot for organised
sale of cotton
By Sebastian Gabunga, Mwanza
Cotton stakeholders countrywide have unanimously decide to penetrate and
supervise the whole process of setting cotton prices at international markets,
so as to be able to confront problems of price decline and provide conducive
environment for sustaining the cotton sector in the country.
In a joint communiqué issued in Mwanza City Monday this week, the stakeholders,
namely the Tanzania Cotton Growers Association (TCGA), Tanzania Individual
Buyers Association (TCA), Tanzania Cotton Board and Shinyanga Region Cooperative
Union (SHIRECU) have said, together with other things, they have decided to put
in place techniques that will enable them sell cotton early through contracts.
The cotton stakeholders’ statement has come a few days after their three-day
sitting to deliberate on the cotton prices in international markets that have
continued to decline, now reaching US$ 0.39 cents per 11b (0.5 kg).
According to them, last year, the price rose to US $ 0.79 cents per 0.5 kg, but
later fell to US $ 0.52 cents, and further slided to US $ 0.44 cents per 0.5 kg
last month.
Concerned by this trend of continued decline in cotton prices in the world
market, the stakeholders welcomed the directive of Premier Frederick Sumaye that
the cotton sector as is with the coffee sector, should leave the free market to
decide on prices for farmers, instead of setting them.
Among the strategies to be used to create a conducive environment and lift the
cotton sector countrywide, they said, is to cooperate closely with banks that
have devised a strategy of protecting prices and cooperate fully in the Price
Risk Management Project devised by the government and the Institute of Common
Fund for Commodities.
They have asked the government to accelerate implementation of strategies that
will attract investors to invest in cotton spinning factories and textile mills,
where farmers will have shares.
The cotton stakeholders have also requested the Ministry of Cooperatives and
Marketing, which has a fully fledged department of marketing to supervise crop
prices in internal and external markets and educate the farmers on these prices.
According to these stakeholders, for a long time now, the Ministry of
Cooperatives and Marketing has remained an onlooker, leaving the Tanzania Cotton
Board to deal with the responsibility of enhancing, supervising and controlling
the cotton sector.
Mara dairy farmers exhorted
to boost milk production
By Beldina Nyakeke, Musoma
Dairy farmers in the four districts of Mara Region earn an average of Tsh. 50
million a month from selling milk at the New Mara Dairy factory in Musoma town.
According to the Executive Director of the factory, James Mathayo, the factory
with a capacity of processing 10,000 litres of milk a day, at present processes
only between 3,000 and 5,000 litres of milk a day.
He named the milk producing districts as Bunda, Tarime, Serengeti and Rural
Musoma.
Mathayo urged dairy farmers to improve their livestock so that they produce more
milk for a market that is now faced with shortage of milk. By doing so, he said,
the dairy farmers can augment their income pull themselves out of poverty.
Mathayo advised the government to encourage Tanzanians to drink more milk.
“If the government encourages Tanzanians to drink even half a litre of milk
daily, the nation will have stronger people and life expectancy will increase,”
said Mathayo adding, the government is in a good position to motivate people
drink milk daily.
His factory he said, will be prepared to join hands with the government and
reduce the price of milk, if the latter ensures children drink milk in schools,
patients in hospitals and workers in factories.
Tax burden turns employers
off higher salaries
By Emmanuel Lazaro, Dodoma
Some employers in the country hesitate to increase salaries of their workers,
for the fear of increased tax burden under the new tax Act of 2004.
This was revealed last week by the Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial
Workers Organisation (TUICO) Secretary General Boniface Nkakatisi, when talking
to members of TUICO Executive Council at Christian Council of Tanzania (CCT)
Hall in Dodoma Municipality.
Nkakatisi said following enactment of the new law, there are now a string of
taxes charged on workers’ salaries.
Some employers, therefore, feel that increasing the allowances on the salaries
of their employees, is tantamount to increasing their tax load, Nkakatisi
observed.
He added that TUICO is planning to study the new Act in depth, so that it is in
a better position to fight for its members from being oppressed by the new law.
Meanwhile, Nkakatisi requested TUICO leaders to unearth corrupt workers in their
work areas. Members of the Executive Committee who are attending a seminar in
Dodoma, he said, will learn the right ways to get concrete evidence on acts of
corruption.
Cashewnut market promising,
says CBT official
By Ashton Balaigwa, Morogoro
Tanzania has earned US $ 21.1 million (Tsh. 21.1 billion) from sales of 3.9
million kilogrammes of cashewnut in the country and abroad in the past five
years - 1999 to 2004.
These facts were revealed by the Cashewnut Board of Tanzania (CBT)’s Marketing
and Promotion Manager Musa Meza in an interview with The Express in Morogoro.
Meza said the production of the crop continued to rise day by day.
In the period of 1999/2000, he said, CBT sold a total of 82,555 kilogrammes of
cashewnut earning US$ 421,844 (Tsh. 421,844,000), while in the seasons of
2000/2001 697,750 kilogrammes was sold fetching US$ 2,413,903 (Tsh.
2,413,903,000).
During the 2001/2002 season, CBT sold 1,159,015 kilogrammes of cashewnut, which
fetched US$ 3,513,931 (Tsh. 3,513,931,000), Meza said. In the period of
2002/2003, CBT sold cashewnuts weighing 1,027,948 kilos for US$ 3,264,884
(Tsh.3,264,884000); while in the 2003/2004 season a total of 3 922,656 kilos of
cashewnuts was sold, bringing in US$ 12,483,675 (Tsh.12,483,675,000).
There is a stable market for the growing crop contrary to claims by some people
that cashewnut has no market.
The cashewnut crop has a certain market in Tanzania and the biggest importer of
the crop is India.
The Board expects to collect a total of 1,010,000 tonnes of cashewnut during the
2004/2005 harvesting season, said a beaming Meza.
Cashewnut production in the country was started officially after the Second
World War in 1945, when a total of 7,000 tonnes of cashewnut was produced and
exported to India.
Govt projects 70bn/- cost on
PADEP
By Emmanuel Lazaro, Dodoma
The government may end up spending Tsh. 70 billion to implement the
Participatory Agricultural Development and Empowerment Project (PADEP) that aims
to increase farmers’ incomes and eradicate food shortages.
Speaking on the project in Dodoma last week, PADEP official Dr. Shekania Bisanda
said the project that took off in 2003/2004 will end by 2008.
The project is being implemented with assistance from the World Bank. It is to
be conducted in 26 districts of Tanzania Mainland and two districts of Zanzibar,
aiming at reaching farmers in 840 villages.
Over 80 per cent of the projected Tsh. 70 billion cost will be sent to
districts, community and village farmers' groups, as low-cost assistance, after
the projects have been approved for implementation.
The target people in the community projects will contribute material or money
equivalent to 20 per cent of all the project cost.
The main aim of the project, Dr. Bisanda said, is to boost agricultural
production, increase farmers’ incomes and household food security, thus helping
reduce poverty in villages.
The eight districts that started implementing the project last year are Hai,
Morogoro, Masasi, Nachingwea, Hanang, Rural Singida, Rural Iringa and Arumeru.
Other nine districts which are preparing to implement the projects this year are
Iramba, Sikonge, Urambo, Uyui, Monduli, Kiteto, Mbulu, Karatu and Babati.
Economic success depends on
good governance
By Emmanuel Lazaro, Dodoma
Efforts to revive the economy will be successful if functionaries in their areas
of work will act as an example, by following the principles of good governance.
This was revealed by the head of the Community Education Unit of the Prevention
of Corruption Bureau (PCB) in Dodoma Region, Faustine Malecha, when presenting a
paper at a seminar attended by Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial
Workers Organisation (TUICO) Executive Council Members, held on Monday in Dodoma
Municipality.
Malecha said, managers in work areas have the responsibilities of keeping an eye
on their subordinates, to make sure that they do not involve themselves in
corruption.
When managers confront problems in combating corruption they should immediately
inform the PCB, Malecha said.
Adding, if the managers will fulfil this noble obligation, the work of PCB will
be easy as it will only involve itself where managers fail. Eventually
corruption will be abolished.
Malecha urged the officials of the workers’ organizations, to participate in
educating workers, as they are the ones mostly affected with corruption.
Administrators and other functionaries at work places ought to prepare
modalities of unearthing the corrupt workers; so that the morale of faithful
workers is not lowered.
It is better that workers are reminded and urged to be punctual at work places,
avoid drunkenness, avoid use of effective language, put on respectful dresses
and respect the government in power and management.
LZARF boosted with Tsh 16.4
million
By Sebastian Gabunga, Mwanza
Four regions of the Lake Zone have contributed a total of Tsh. 16.4 million to
boost the Lake Zone Agricultural Research Fund for the Lake area.
The Secretary of Lake Zone Agricultural Research Fund (LZARF), Boniface Kabadi
said all district councils of the Lake Zone regions have supplied the money.
Out of this money, he said, Kagera Region had contributed Tsh. 5.5 million,
Mwanza Region Tsh. 5.4 million, Mara Region Tsh. four million and Shinyanga
Region Tsh. 1.5 million.
Nevertheless, the LZARF Secretary said, the contributions are still far from the
projected amount of Tsh. 100 million.
He requested district councils, which have not submitted their contributions and
those, which have submitted to continue with contributions to make research on
agricultural crops and livestock a success.
District Councils that have not been contributing are Musoma Urban, in Mara
Region and Bukombe, Kahama, Meatu and Maswa in Shinyanga Region.
The Fund, which was established in 1999, he said, spends between Tsh. 40 and 60
million for research projects each year.
The LZARF also gets contribution from the Central Government, which this year
donated Tsh. seven million, while individuals and companies contributed a total
of Tsh. four million.
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