Dar es Salaam — The government has been commended for scrapping tax levies in agricultural yields, but experts say the budget is low to promote the sector.
They stress that at 0.85 per cent of the national budget the amount is a far cry from the rate agreed in the Maputo Declaration, which Tanzania is a signatory, to allocate at least 10 per cent of national budgets to agriculture.
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