Tanzania: Greedy Crop Buyers Impoverish Farmers!

A LETTER writer, Mr Joseph Kariongi of Kilimanjaro Region, has written to us to complain that farmers in his locality fail to sell their produce because of lack of reliable markets especially when they are blessed with bumper harvests.

This, indeed, is a sorry spectacle. Mr Kariongi says that "once farmers collect their harvests a period of miserly sets in. They have no clear idea where to sell their crops. So, their incomes depend on the mercy of unscrupulous traders who dictate prices without considering the farmers' position."

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