TANZANIA stands a good chance of becoming sugarself sufficient and net exporter of the essential product if there are strategic moves to attract more investors in the local sugar sub-sector.
Apart from increasing sugar supply in the market and stabilising prices, increased investments would create employment and support in the implementation of the governments' ambitious Kilimo Kwanza Initiative. Sugarcane is mostly grown in processing factories' owned estates and some outgrowers in contracts with the factories.
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