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Tanzania: Country in Study to Revamp Coffee
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East African Business Week (Kampala)
28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
Daniel Said
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania will undertake and develop a comprehensive proposal on how small holder coffee producers in the Kagera region could be mainstreamed and empowered to take advantage of a liberalized market.
The study has been caused by the liberalized coffee market in Tanzania, which seems to be effective in other coffee producing regions, but not in Kagera, a leading coffee producing region where the story has been the opposite.
The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Marketing says reforms have not taken root in the Kagera region and most of the small scale coffee farmers have been facing marketing problems resulting in farmers looking at other alternative marketing channels offering relatively higher prices elsewhere.
This strategy that aims at revamping a strategic crop in a holistic and harmonized manner that aims at maximizing farmers' incomes and the Tanzania government through the ministry has decided to engage the services of a consultant to advise government.
Apart from the ministerial tender board, all issues related to this study are also being coordinated by the director of the Commodity Market, Mr. Majengo Odilo.
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The study will look into identifying an approach that will be used in creating awareness and adoption of the coffee producer's empowerment and market linkages at regional, district and at the farmers level.
It would also identify key stakeholders along the value chain, farmer organizations, services providers, roles and methodologies of operations in the functions of producer empowerment.
The study would also identify locally driven initiatives, how efficiently and effectively the key stakeholders in the coffee value chain access opportunities from promoting and empowering farmers, develop key interventions and implement key initiatives that add value in the development and empowerment of small-scale coffee in Kagera region.
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