Wake Up, Smell That Tanzanian Coffee!
With Tanzania being Africa's fourth-largest coffee producer, agricultural marketing cooperative societies are planning to open three coffee processing factories in Shinyanga, Simiyu and Geita regions in support of President John Magufuli's ambitious industrialisation plan for the country.
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