A LARGE portion of arable land with excellent irrigation potential remains uncultivated in Bagamoyo District, Coast region despite the fact that thousands of households survive on a single meal a day.
Interviewed residents maintain that the piece of land remains fallow, not because the people were lazy but rather the controversial ownership of the land rendered the area grossly underutilised.
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