Tanzania: Let's Sustain Bumper Harvest Trend

TANZANIANS are once again assured of a bumper harvest this season. It follows impressive yields recorded last season when the country registered 118 per cent Self Sufficiency Ratio (SSR).

Official records by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives indicate that the volume of maize harvested last year amounted to 5.3 million metric tonnes and rice 1.3 million metric tonnes. In this regard, the nation created surplus and exceeded by far the compulsory grain reserve level of 150,000 metric tonnes.

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