THE country's sugar industry expects to largely target export markets in the next four years as more foreign agricultural investments flow in by 2016, a departure from the current situation where there is existence of sugar gap every year, authorities say.
The Sugar Board of Tanzania (SBT) says its nine projects whose implementation will see the country tripling its annual sugar production from the current estimate of 300,000 metric tonnes to 910,000 metric tonnes come 2016, targets the current usually experienced gap sugar. The projects, which are in various stages of implementation, include Rufiji (Coast Region), Kasulu (Kigoma Region), Ikongo (Mara Region), Luiche/ Malagarasi (Kigoma Region), Pangani (Tanga Region), Mahurunga (Mtwara Region) and Kilosa in Morogoro Region.
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