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Wednesday 20 April 2016

The government of Tanzania has set itself to continue to educate small farmers in Bagamoyo district, Coast region cotton crop to be more commercial, as part of the movement to combat poverty faced by citizens. Members of the Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB), the Association of Cotton Farmers Tanzania (TACOGA) and University Cooperative Association Coast region CORECU are the remarks during a visit to motivate their farmers. Cotton is one of the cash crops in the country that have been a source of progress for many citizens. Other cash crops in the country include cashew nuts, coffee, sisal, sunflower and sesame. While cotton farmers are encouraged to increase productivity, TCB has been criticized for allegedly failing to supervise and defend the crop farmers, including the issue of rising prices for seeds. Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has lashed out at the leaders and chief executives in the cotton industry who exploit the farmers to stop using contract farming as a sure way to gain market share. Pinda gives his statement in Mwanza when he opened the 10th Meeting of Stakeholders Small Cotton. He says, TACOGA should manage the revolution as cotton farming in fact urging farmers to help them out when they are to improve their lives. "TCA TACOGA to stay together and make an assessment of the creation of these institutions. It must be ready to defend the interests of farmers of this crop and not otherwise ... if you can not do this then you do not deserve to exist, "said Pinda. The Prime Minister said many stakeholders recommend contract farming go forward after irregularities undertaken, including education agreement with all stakeholders and farmers' groups to register in order to be recognized legally. "I believe absolutely that this procedure of contract farming was managed properly it will bring success in increasing productivity; improve the quality and purity of cotton, making cotton Tanzania repeatedly characterized the preferential price paid to improve extension services and prevent farmers from continuing injustice through balance, "said Pinda. He wants leaders and other stakeholders to let them defend personal interest in the matter and instead act on them to be adapted to the challenges faced. "I beg let's create an environment in which a farmer earning him an opportunity to achieve greater production and productivity which also gave cheap life. Cotton Board see to the implementation of the law on contract farming, "said Pinda. "There are some people who have the financial capacity they wish this arrangement as they are accustomed to lend farmers with great interest during the stress and come to claim them shauza their crops ... this procedure ease customers as farmers will now have an alternative mechanism to access affordable credit through this system agriculture, "he said. The Prime Minister said, the mechanism of contract farming in cotton is being implemented with the consent of the stakeholders themselves of cotton who lived in the Seven Summit held on 11 June 2011 after three years of effective pilot in Mara Region, District Bariadi (Simiyu) and District Kibondo (Kigoma). He says that agriculture is a managed and 'Tanzania Gastby Trust' through the Agricultural Development Program of Cotton and Wool Industries (CTDP) in outstanding balance weakened by the presence of the leaders in the cotton grown persuade farmers who oppose or reject the system for their own personal interests. "In some areas you will find an agent they buy cotton from farmers who borrower input and 'CTDP' without their help farmers in any case during the period of cultivation, so the system to restore lending it crumbled to dust, and farmers were incapable of restoring their credit," says Pinda . He says the situation was caused kisimamishwe contract farming in the 2012/2013 agricultural season and contributing to a decline in crop production. He says despite being a product of cotton has grown in the regions about 15 in the country, yet the cultivation of this crop is facing many challenges, including low productivity in the production of cotton which now average national production is 300 kg per acre compared to the set target of achieving production of 1,500 kg per hectare by 2015. "This is due to many farmers improved farming practices, cotton, inadequate extension services and research, lack of inputs, capital and market point of this crop with low agricultural tools. Shortage of adequate manufacturing value addition of cotton is something that also creates resale of raw cotton in the world market price which it occasionally unpredictable, "he said. Pinda says another challenge is a small price to cotton farmers they earn due to the instability of the price of the crop on the world market. To overcome this problem, says stakeholders have proposed the establishment of a special fund to cover the price of cotton to the point where farmers when prices come down in the world market with increasing cotton mills adding value.

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