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<b><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Arusha</span></b><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> --- Fear has gripped Tanzania horticultural farmers and exporters over risk of losing the lucrative European Union market, if they do not conform to its new safety standards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Horticulture as a non-traditional export for Tanzania has not only become a growth driver of stagnant agriculture and foreign currency earner, bringing home $546 million in 2015, but also brought hope to the lives of many as a source of jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">The EU has warned all countries to ensure all fresh produce meant for its market is free of harmful pesticides and meets the ‘required minimum residual levels’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> For instance, the EU market now requires that horticultural produce should not, among other recommended chemicals, contain more than two percent of herbicide sprayed on the crop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">But, local farmers say most of the recommended chemicals are not available in Tanzania and their costly registration process takes many years, thanks to bureaucratic procedures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> Some of the export commodities on the list of rejection include avocado, flowers and vegetables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">“Most of EU market recommended pesticides are not available in Tanzania and their registration takes four years due to bureaucratic procedures” explains, Mr James Parsons, director of Africado, a Tanzania’s leading avocado grower and exporter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Mr Parsons cited pyrethroids as among unregistered chemicals in Tanzania, despite the fact that have been found to pose very little risk to human health and the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Inflexible and undynamic pesticides registration process doesn’t cater for changes in the industry, he says, adding that whenever a registered chemical is phased out by the market, Tanzania’s farmers are often left without a replacement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> “This<b> </b>discourages new crops – for example nothing registered for avocado crop” Mr Parsons explains, stressing that the country’s exporters need an up to date modern chemicals and a dynamic system to keep up with a changing world where science is constantly bringing new technology.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, the 1997 </span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Plant Protection Act and its 1999 Regulations guide importation, supply and use of pesticides, including requiring the inputs to be registered before they are imported or used in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">A pesticide registration is done to ensure the product is safe and effective to use, given the importing country’s own agriclimatic conditions with suitability trials typically requiring three crop cycles before a new pesticide can be approved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">However, the pesticide registration process abounds with</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> trade barriers, inhibiting farmers’ access to improved agrochemicals, as inputs dealers do not only consider it costly for them to afford, but also cumbersome and tedious to adhere to.</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">The law requires every pesticides importer to pay a cess fee equivalent to 0.5 per cent FOB (Freight on Board) value of the pesticide to be imported, $150 analytical fee per every sample collected, and a pre-business license fee of $150 per year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">In addition, he is required to pay $50 as an application fee, $1,000 as experimental registration fee (payable once), and between $2,000 and $6,000 field test fee to cover field expenses -- the amount depends on the nature and extent of the field tests to be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Then he is required to pay $1,000 for a five-year renewable full registration fee, or $1,500 for a renewable two-year provisional registration fee, or $1,000 for a renewable two-year restricted registration fee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA), deputy CEO, Mr. Anthony Chamanga says</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">there are several pieces of legislation governing pesticides management including the Plant Protection Act, Tropical Pesticides Research Institute Act and Plant Protect Regulations (dealing with pesticides for crops) as well as Animal Diseases Act (for animal pesticides).</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> “The multiplicity of legislation implies conflicting decision. It is high time there’s a single legislation dealing with all pesticide” Mr Chamanga suggests.</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">It is understood, there are multiple institutions dealing with pesticide management without any proper coordination.</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">As a result, the multiplicity of the institutions causes overlaps, duplication of mandates and possible delays in decisions making. </span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"> It is recommended that the primary responsible authority for pesticide management should be specifically identified in the law.</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Again, the Plant Protection Regulations requires every pesticide submitted for registration to undergo laboratory test for period of not more than 14 days and field test for not be less than three cropping seasons.</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">However, farmers say the time consumed for field tests is unnecessarily long even for the pesticides that have been in use in the neighbouring countries after being tested in the same agro-ecological zones.</span><span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon";"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">"We are currently engaging the government and God willing we will be able to come up with lasting solution before it is too late" Ms Mkindi explains.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">“We are harmonizing our registration procedures and responsible agencies within EAC countries so that pesticides which are already registered in one country can be allowed to be used across the region without being required to undergo trials for three cropping seasons” Dr Lekei explains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Much as horticulture needs large amount of pesticides and other agrochemicals to manage pests and ensure high quality products, such multiple compliance and registration fees have a negative bearing on competitiveness of the inputs trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">From a value chain perspective, every cost that occurs during the production and marketing of a horticultural commodity also robs of profit farmers and all others involved in the production and delivery to its terminal market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">John Keyser, an independent consultant based in Lusaka, Zambia, highlights in findings of his research that savings in trade costs not only have the potential for benefiting farmers through lower input prices, but can also have leveraged impact on agricultural competitiveness through increased yields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Multiple legislations and institutions dealing with pesticides management and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">lack of compliance of the same to international and regional instruments inhibit inputs trade competitiveness, deny farmers of access to agrochemicals, and hinder productivity in horticultural sub-sector and the agricultural sector at large. </span></div>
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IHUCHA --- Liberat Mfumukeko is a new Secretary general of the expanding East
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The little known Mfumukeko replaces<span class="apple-converted-space"> Richard Sezibera from Rwanda</span>, who will
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the EAC heads of states he sworn in as the new SG, but would wait until April
2016 to assume duties at the Arusha-based Secretariat.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mr Mfumukeko who becomes the first
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2007, is a current deputy secretary general of EAC in charge of Finance and
Administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">He</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">
was appointed to the post during the leaders’ Summit in Nairobi in February 2015.
He is quiet man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mr.
Mfumukeko joined the EAC from another position of leadership – Director
General, Burundi Water and Electricity Utility (REGIDESO), the last position he
held prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary General. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to joining the EAC, Mr. Mfumukeko also held the Chairmanship of the Steering
Committee of the East African Power Pool (EAPP).</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Mr. Mfumukeko brings a wealth of knowledge and
experience to his new position, with vast international experience including
the establishment of the Burundi Investment Promotion Authority (API) in 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The Deputy Secretary General boasts
international, intercultural and linguistic skills, with fluency in French,
English, Kirundi, Kiswahili and Russian as well as having worked in France,
Russia, USA, DR Congo, Rwanda, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According to the EAC
Treaty, the secretary general shall be appointed by the Summit upon nomination
by the relevant Head of State under the principle of rotation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The SG shall be the
head of the Secretariat, chief accounting officer of the Community and
secretary to the Summit and shall serve for a fixed term of five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr Sezibera succeed
Juma Mwapachu from Tanzania ( 2006 to 2011). Other past SGs were Amanya Mushega
from Uganda (2001 - 2006) and Kenya’s Francis Muthaura (1996-2001).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-14116362005944676752016-03-09T13:32:00.002+03:002016-03-09T13:32:45.221+03:00Serena Hotels Unveils $7million Package For Tanzania's Facilities Facelift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Serena Hotel chain will invest $7 million this year to transform Tanzania properties in its efforts to maintain standards.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Serena Hotel portfolio in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar includes a collection of ten up-market hotels, safari lodges and camps located in some of the most exquisite locations within the northern safari circuit, Selous game reserve in southern, Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Stone town in the Zanzibar archipelago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The planned software and hardware infrastructural improvements for Serena Hotels within the northern and southern Tanzania would cost $3 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Managing director for Serena hotels in East African regional, Mahmud Jan Mohamed told tour operators in Tanzania that Dar Es Salaam Serena hotel facelift will cost $4million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">“In 2016, management will in a phased manner implement improvements wherever possible and at every guest touch point to ensure that guests are aware that Serena Hotels continues to maintain standards despite the challenges facing the tourism industry” Mr Mohamed said when touch base with tour operators in Arusha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">In northern and southern Tanzania Serena will see room’s refurbishment of its safari lodges and camps, creation of swimming pools at Mbuzi Mawe Serena camp and Lake Duluti Serena hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Mr Mohamed further said that they will also add conference facility and six superior rooms at Lake Duluti Serena hotel as in Dar Serena they will upgrade arrival and reception lobby, among others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Detailed designs are being worked on for Zanzibar Serena Hotel’s redevelopment and upgrade to cover the arrival experience, lobby, guest rooms, terrace restaurant and Maisha Spa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">“It is important to mention that <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">as has been achieved with previous Serena Hotels refurbishment projects, the management team will continue to guide and manage the projects in a sensitive manner to ensure no disruption to guest services” he assured tour operators.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Serena Hotel’s was established in the 1970s in Kenya, expanded its brand to Tanzania and Zanzibar in 1996 and to date offers 599 rooms within the ten properties in Tanzania and Zanzibar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Official records show that Serena Hotels Tanzania directly employs a total of 1,246 staff of which 98 percent are Tanzanians and the balance East African Citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">As if that was not enough, Serena Hotels Tanzania paid approximately $6.9 million in direct and indirect taxes in year 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Commenting, the CEO of Tanzania Association of Tour Operators, Sirili Akko commended Serena hotels for its contribution in East African tourism industry growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">“Serena Hotels is one of key stakeholders of tourism in the region as it adds value to our industry for offering quality accommodation services to our holiday-makers” Mr Akko explained.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">With a focus on product, service standards and guest satisfaction, Serena Hotels, offers quality accommodation, conference and holiday solutions in a collection of 24 up-market hotels, resorts, safari lodges and camps strategically located in some of the most exquisite and prime locations within 6 countries in the Eastern Africa region Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Serena Tourism Promotion Services is the tourism arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), an international development agency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">AKFED is a major shareholder of TPS Eastern Africa Limited (listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange) and has majority shares in TPS, Serena Hotels.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">While celebrating local artistic and cultural expressions, Serena Hotels promotes tourism potential, serves as an economic engine, are pioneers for development and growth in remote or neglected areas, are committed to developing human resources in each of these areas and are a good steward of the local environment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "big caslon"; font-size: 12pt;">By ADAM IHUCHA ---</span><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For two years, 26-year-old Emmy Alphonce graduate on communications and Public Relations lived with a faint hope that one day she would be able to establish her firm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But lack of start-ups funds thwarted her ambition, leaving her practicing PR in her mind, visualizing the excitement, capturing that moment only in the lenses deeply hidden in her heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miss Emmy is not alone, many graduates struggle to be entrepreneurs, but their dreams are turned to be nightmares due to lack of finance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nearly 54 percent of 45 million Tanzanians have no access to formal financial services, despite the fact that financial institutions have been struggling to reach them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Various studies highlighted illiteracy as one of key factors behind the mess, but during the just ended ‘FinDisrupt’ event in Arusha that brought together product development teams among financial service providers as well as researchers in the financial sector, tech developers and end users, a new insight came in the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Traditionally, financial experts have been working extra time to capture this huge market by pushing their readymade products through orchestrated marketing strategies, but in vain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, the Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) experts gave an interesting insight that the financial products that have been pushed on the market do not respond to the real challenges facing the local people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The tricky issue is that experts have been trying hard to make people understand their products, instead of them to comprehend the customers need well before creating product” says FSDT operations director, Irene Mlola.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After intense training and discussion, it was evident that financial service developers, now than ever before, need to change their mindset when it comes to design financial products.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ibanga Umanah, Co Founder Brave Venture Labs at San Fransisco says that to win customers, it is imperative to come up with human centered products.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Human centered design is a process for understanding people and designing solutions to their problems” Dr Umanah explained.</span></div>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although, institutions such as Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT), the world Bank, the National Bureau of Statistics and a number of market research firms among others, generate insights on the demand side of the financial sector, the response from the market, but new products does not give the confidence that the insights generated are being used for the improvement and development of new innovative products.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was from this background, FSDT decided to ignite a conversation on consumer centered product development in order to fill the product improvement and development gap in Tanzania.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the end of the FinDisrupt convening, leading experts on financial inclusion designed a Kuza financial product for star-ups, which is an urgent need to tackle the youth’s plight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">CRDB through microfinance product will adopt the idea to offer collateral free capital for startups and promote their businesses online free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The head of CRDB Microfinance product, mr Gideon Gabriel, who attended the FinDisrupt event agreed to embrace the new financial service to help support the startups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Indeed, youths in Tanzania make up the majority of the population. Prioritizing youths’ financial inclusion is a lever for achieving inclusive growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The opportunity for financial services companies is equally compelling: Nearly half a million youths graduates in Tanzania every year with various skills, but not often finding-financial solutions for business start-ups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite the clear case for targeting this group, too often, financial products are designed for higher-income consumers or for governments seeking more effective channels for disbursing social payments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The products are rarely designed with low-income youths in mind—such as a young graduate Emmy in a remote area, or a carpenter who has skills, but lack capital or collateral.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-35360133299161939982016-03-08T15:47:00.003+03:002016-03-08T15:47:57.115+03:00WTO Award-Winning EATP Endorses Karibu TMT <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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tourism industry in Tanzania has received a major boost after its annual Karibu
Travel Market Tanzania (TMT), one of the largest tourism show, received an East
African region endorsement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Multi-destination Knowledge Management Tool, the East African Tourism Platform
(EATP), an organisation of the region’s stakeholders, has endorsed Karibu
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focused engagement of the private sector in EAC integration process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In its just
ended EATP board meeting held in Kigali, Rwanda, the EATP, overwhelmingly
sanctioned Karibu TMT as the premier show to work with in Tanzania to spur
tourism industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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regional body responsible for promotion of responsible, sustainable and
universally accessible tourism, EATP’s endorsement of the Karibu TMT reinforces
the relevance of the Arusha based tourism fair to promote region tourist
attractions and to cement inter and intra-regional tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Magical Kenya and Pearl of Africa in Uganda for tourism business to interact
and promote inter and intra tourism” </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">EATP Regional Co-ordinator Ms Carmen Nibigira.</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By ADAM IHUCHA,</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Arusha</span></b><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">---
Claire Prince-Josh, a bank-marketing executive for more than a decade at
horticultural potential area in Meru, Arusha region, is struggling to sell her financial
service at the moment and does not understand why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As she strives to push her products
the more it becomes tough, frustrating her, deciding to design a new service on
addition to other tradition ones that seem to be losing allure to customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As it happened, she went back
to the drawing board and devised the car loan product and later on spends a lot
of bank’s money to promote the new financial product, only to find that the
service too is not moving at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A fortnight ago, she lost her
job for misleading the bank to invest substantial amount of money for
introducing undesirable product.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ms Claire is not alone. In the digital
economy, most people find it difficult to sell enough of their product or
service because they create offers that vaguely serve the market and seem like
a pretty good idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why? Most of experts
naturally suffer from the ‘curse of knowledge’ as they tend to assume they know
what their potential customers need, but in reality this could be far from the
truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raymond John Himatia, horticultural growers in
Usa-River area in Meru, where Ms Claire was formerly working, says that they
are real hungry for a long-term loan for agri-business expansion and not car
credit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Should the bank asks us what we need, we could
tell them, give us long term loans for agricultural expansion…this would be suitable
for us” Mr Raymond noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A three-day </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">event in Arusha dubbed
‘FinDisrupt’ </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">that
brought together product development teams among financial service providers as
well as researchers in the financial sector and tech developers in Tanzania as
well as end users, realized that financial products in most cases are designed
on boardrooms or copied from elsewhere like Europe or Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No wonder, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in 2009, 56.0 percent of adults had no access to any kind of
financial services; 12.4 percent used banks accounts; 4.3 had access to
semi-formal services like SACCOs; and 27.3 percent used only informal services
like rotating savings and credit associations.</span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">After intense discussion, it
was evident that financial service developers, now than ever before, need to
change their mindset when it comes to design financial products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ibanga Umanah, Co Founder
Brave Venture Labs at San Fransisco says that to win customers, it is
imperative to come up with human centered products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Human centered design
is a process for understanding people and designing solutions to their problems”
Dr Umanah explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Although, institutions such as Financial Sector Deepening Trust
(FSDT), the world Bank, the National Bureau of Statistics and a number of
market research firms among others, generate insights on the demand side of the
financial sector, the response from the market, but new products does not give
the confidence that the insights generated are being used for the improvement
and development of new innovative products. </span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It
was from this background, FSDT decided to ignite a conversation on consumer
centered product development in order to fill the product improvement and
development gap in Tanzania. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to FSDT operations director, Ms Irene Mlola</span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> the FinDisrupt event took the shape of a hackathon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In the early stages of
hackathons, <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">computer programmers
and others involved in software development and hardware development, including
graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate
intensively on software project. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hackathons
offer a unique</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> space and opportunity
for idea proliferation and project realization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“We
particularly</span><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
invited few end users to give us feedback on whether financial service
developers have built products that meet their needs after the finDisrupt
event” Ms Mlola. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Indeed,
the event</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> started conversation
from the exciting evidence or insights of the end users. This came directly
from both FSDT / FSP reports or through further analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These insights were used in the generation of new ideas, which
resulted in tweaking of exciting products or in the development of new
products. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The main objective of FinDisrupt was to promote evidence based decision-making
in product development by financial service providers in Tanzania. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In most cases, the product development teams are at the heart of
tweaking international products cascaded to them by their mother companies /
improving exciting products and in a few cases they are involved in the
development of new products. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In order to shake up the financial products development space
in Tanzania, this is the group which we would like to influence and work with
post the event” chipped in Mr Elvis Mushi, FSDT Head of research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These include product development teams from mobile network
operators (MNOs) banks, microfinance institutions such as saccoss, Insurance
Companies and Pension funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Financial Sector Deepening (FSDT) mission is to
generate sustainable improvements in the livelihoods of poor households through
reduced vulnerability to shocks increased incomes and employment achieved
through providing greater access to financial services for more men, women and
enterprises. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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defines financial inclusion as a state where: <i>“</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">All Tanzanians regularly use financial tools
and payment platforms to manage cash flows and mitigate shocks. These are delivered
by formal providers through a range of appropriate services and infrastructure,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-42669242541295130442015-12-17T03:01:00.000+03:002015-12-17T03:01:21.943+03:00Tanzania mining industry cuts jobs as gold price slumps <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hundreds of Tanzania mine workers have lost their jobs. FILE PHOTO | AFP <br />
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By ADAM IHUCHA, <br />
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The tumbling price of gold and poor gemstone output have forced mining companies to lay off hundreds of workers.</div>
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Two leading mining firms — Acacia Mining Plc and TanzaniteOne —
have announced plans to shed 1,685 jobs or 16 per cent of the mining
industry’s 10,000 strong formal workforce by the end of this year. </div>
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Whereas Tanzania’s largest gold miner, Acacia Mining Plc will
cut 1,050 jobs in the next few months, TanzaniteOne will lay off 635
workers.<br />
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Acacia said in a statement that the move to cut back on staff
was taken in response to the current slump in the price of gold and low
performance. The world market gold price has fallen from $1,800 per
ounce three years ago to $1,072 per ounce last week.</div>
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“As a result, approximately 1,050 of our people, representing 27
per cent of our workforce, have either left or are expected to leave
over the next few months,” Acacia’s statement reads.</div>
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Bulyanhulu mines will be most affected by the cuts. Acacia also operates Buzwagi and North Mara in northwest Tanzania.</div>
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The restructuring is expected to lead to an annual saving of $25
million, prior to a restructuring charge of approximately $11 million
predominantly incurred in 2015.</div>
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This is one of a number of initiatives to ensure costs within
the business are optimised and in turn enhance cash flow generation. </div>
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Acacia is also working to further refine capital expenditure,
renew discussions with contractors and major suppliers to improve their
rates, rationalise corporate administration spend and ensure its
community spending is in line with the corporate strategy.</div>
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Acacia CEO Brad Gordon says that after honouring its debts in
June, Acacia had $145 million cash in its coffers, which fell to $99
million at the end of September.</div>
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In September 2015, the company reported that it had incurred a
$13 million net loss in the third quarter, owing to lower output and
high operational costs.</div>
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“Acacia had been one of the shining lights on the London Stock
Exchange but the underperformance in the September quarter led to a 25
per cent fall in our share price relative to our peers” Mr Gordon says.</div>
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<strong>FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES</strong></div>
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Tanzania’s largest miner, which has produced nearly eight
million ounces over a decade, said the $13 million loss was against a
net profit of $28 million in the third quarter of 2014.</div>
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The loss reflected a 20 per cent slump in revenue to $193 million on the backdrop of declines in output and sales. <br />
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During the quarter, gold production at the company’s mines fell
14 per cent to 163,888 ounces while sales went down six per cent to
176,116 ounces.</div>
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The cost of producing an ounce of the precious metal rose nine
per cent on the year to $1,195, which Acacia attributed to short-term
operational challenges at its Bulyanhulu and Buzwagi mines.</div>
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TanzaniteOne has justifiedits decision to shed 50 per cent of
the workforce by citing the decline in Tanzanite gemstone production.<br />
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Last week, TanzaniteOne, owned by Sky Associates and the State
Mining Corporation announced that it would send way 635 staff out of its
1,284 strong workforce.</div>
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TanzaniteOne mining manager, Apolinary Modest said that the
company was undergoing financial difficulty, thanks to the low
production of the precious stone at Mererani Hills in Simanjiro
district, Manyara Region.</div>
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Mining is one of biggest private sector employers in Tanzania, providing jobs for nearly 10,000 people.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-17086716206470809172015-10-19T13:25:00.001+03:002015-10-19T13:26:08.708+03:00TPDC Eyes First Foray Into Oil and Gas Exploration <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">By ADAM
IHUCHA</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">---</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Tanzania</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">s state-run petroleum corporation is
finalizing technicalities to commence its first foray into exploration of oil
and gas at Eyasi-Wembere basin, one of its new potential blocks sitting on the
Rift Valley.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">The Eyasi-Wembere block</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> with a 23,000-square- km area,
straddles between Eyasi basin in Mbulu and Ngorongoro districts in Manyara and
Arusha respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Geologists
believe there could be substantial oil and gas reserves at Eyasi-Wembere block</span><span style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">, sits on</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> the northern
part of Tanzania</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">s Rift Valley, near the border with
Kenya.</span><span style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Tanzania
Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) Managing Director, Dr James Mataragio told <i>The
Empire Voice </i>that they are finalizing procedures before embarking on actual
exploration undertaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">If all goes well, the </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">‘</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Airborne Gravity Gradiometry
(AGG) survey</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> over Eyasi-Wembere, one of our
frontier areas, would commence in November 2015</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> Dr Mataragio says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">The
month-long basic survey, he says, is imperative given the massive oil reserves
discovered at similar geological settings in Kenya and Uganda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">We believe that if there have been
significant discoveries in the Kenyan and Ugandan parts of the Rift Valley,
then there might as well be some oil or gas reserves in Tanzania</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">s side</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> Dr Mataragio explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">The AGG
survey, would mark the state-run TPDC</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">s first foray
into oil and gas exploration, a new area that used to be dominated by the
multinational corporations with a vast experience, financial and technological
muscles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">We are going commercial and
exploration is part of our core business. The idea is to add value to our
blocks and attract investors,</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;"> Dr Mataragio
told <i>The Empire Voice.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">However,
analysts say that the idea sounds extremely good, but they are skepticism over
the TPDC</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">s financial ability to bankroll the
costly undertaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">S</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">enior Lecturer at Institute
of Finance Management (IFM) in Dar Es
Salaam, Dr Abdallah Saqware says that TPDC foray into
exploration comes at the opportune moment as the hydrocarbon industry grows </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">by leaps and bounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">“My great worry is on the TPDC’s financial aspect. Where the state-run
company, will acquire sufficient funds to facilitate the exploration?” he
queried. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Dr Saqware said that Tanzanians could jubilate over the idea, but
there’s a risk for TPDC to drive the country into huge debt burden in future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">In his quick rejoinder, TPDC boss dispels those fears, saying the
treasury would fund the crucial exploration activities in a bid to safeguard
national interest on hydrocarbon industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Traditionally,
Tanzania like other African countries has been entering into production-sharing
agreements on its natural gas blocks with international companies before
establishing its potential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">But now, Dr
Mataragio says, the TPDC move to conduct its explorations with an eye to
determine the resources potential, could be a game changer in Tanzania, as the
country would now have a bargaining power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">The move
raises the East African region</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">s hope for
bolstering its profile as a new hotspot in hydrocarbon exploration after
significant deposits of crude oil were discovered in Uganda, Kenya and gas in
Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Indeed,
growing interest in exploration in East Africa has been spurred by the
discovery of oil in Uganda in 2006, and subsequently in Kenya in 2012 as well
as finds of natural gas in Tanzania and Mozambique.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Six of the 2013 top 10 biggest global finds have been in Africa,
where there are some 130 billion barrels of crude oil waiting to be tapped by
more than 500 companies, according to a recent report by
PriceWaterhouseCoopers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Topping this list are
Mozambique and Tanzania made the world take note of east Africa as an emerging
player in the global industry, said the report’s advisory leader, Chris
Bredenhann.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Tanzania,
East Africa's second largest economy is estimated to have more than 55.08
trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas reserves off its southern coast, more
than enough to put the country on a faster economic development path and help
it build energy independence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">The pioneer
Uganda with 6.5 billion barrels in reserves, its first oil deposits, were
discovered in the Albertine rift basin nine years ago, but commercial
production has been delayed, thanks to the disputes over a refinery, among
other factors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">The country
now aims for commercial output by 2016 at the earliest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU-ExtB;">Kenya, where
commercial oil production is expected to begin in 2018, estimates its crude oil
reserves to be somewhere near one billion barrels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By ADAM IHUCHA </span><span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">—Struggling to </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">irrigate his horticulture
farm at Selela village in Monduli just outside Arusha, in northern Tanzania,
Cuthbert Meena, is a brokenhearted-old man.</span><span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr Meena, a seasoned
farmer, has fought so many battles in his 56 years of life, probably a very
long life by African standards, but today he is frustrated, worrying about the
future of his occupational.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nowadays,</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
rain falls when it should not, and does not come when it should" Mr Meena
says, adding that to make the matters worse, a short-lived redeemer -- the
USAID funded Tanzania Agriculture Productivity Program (TAPP) also came to an
end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He says that the
project had not only introduced modern technologies, but also enabled them to build
a dam where they harvest rainwaters for irrigation purposes through out of the
year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed, for the last
five years or so, the USAID-TAPP has been imparting thousands of farmers with
modern agricultural skills and introducing modern technologies to bolster yields
in the height of climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m not worried only for myself, but the</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
USAID-TAPP has been paying more attention to us farmers. For instance, it has
introduced drip irrigation for thousands of smallholder farmers to mitigate
climate change effects,</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> he
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr Meena voice
anchored by other farmers such as Daniel Mtiri from Morogoro, Deogratius Masao
from Mpwapwa in Dodoma and Victor Myanda in Kilolo, Iringa, who now trying to
imagine life without the USAID-TAPP project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Didot; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This project has
transformed our agriculture through skills and modern technologies so now we
don’t know how life will be treating us after the USAID-TAPP” says Mr Victor
Myanda from Kilolo in iringa. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The TAPP started in September of 2009,
and it ended on the 26<sup>th</sup> August 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was funded by the USAID as part of the
Feed the Future initiative. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">TAPP worked to increase smallholder
incomes, improve nutrition, and expand markets in the multi-million dollars horticulture
subsector. A sector, which has been showing high growth, rates, especially in
the last five years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In its lifespan, the project reached
over 40,000 households, and covered the Northern regions of Arusha, Kilimanjaro
and Manyara; the Eastern regions of Tanga, Dar Es Salaam, Coast, Zanzibar and
Morogoro; and the Central / Southern Highlands regions of Dodoma, Iringa,
Njombe and Mbeya. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The project worked closely with
smallholder farmers and industry stakeholders, raising productivity and incomes
across the value chain from farm to market, while raising awareness of the
nutritional challenges and addressing these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">USAID-TAPP Chief of party, Antonio
Coello is humbled that his project recorded a number of achievements, as it has
touched lives of thousands of farmers, improved technology adoption rate and
enhanced productivity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
data speaks volumes on project accomplishments that include a 148 percent
increase in yields of targeted products” Mr Coello explains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Before TAPP support, farmers used to
harvest 9 tons per hectare as an average of selected horticulture crops, but by
the end of the project, their output averaged 22.3 tons per hectare; equivalent
to 243 percent increase in gross margins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As a result nearly $39.04 million in
incremental sales from participating smallholder farmers collected at
farm-level, he says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A total of 85 percent of project
farmers are now applying at least one improved technology or management
practice in their farms, Mr Coello notes, adding 14,421 hectares of
horticultural crops are now under improved technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In the list of key achievements there
are 138,404 trained individuals in terms of modern farming, whereas in health
and nutrition, USAID – TAPP supported10, 703 beneficiaries with access to home
or community gardens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The project went extra mile by
reaching out 68,170 individuals with HIV prevention interventions” he stresses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Local partnerships have been a critical
piece in USAID-TAPP’s strategy in building a productive, efficient, and
profitable horticulture sector for smallholder farmers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Through these partnerships significant
market opportunities were created for smallholders in local and export
markets—both for fresh and processed products. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Results from the partnership program
include 23,000 direct beneficiaries, 40,000 individuals trained, private sector
investment of $6.8 million, and more than $26 million in incremental sales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Challenges <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">USAID-TAPP Deputy Chief of Party, Dr
Richard Pluke says that the horticulture sector remains a very attractive and
profitable sector with great opportunities for growth for the upcoming years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">However, Dr Pluke says, there are still
numerous challenges in the industry, key among them is that smallholder farmers
are willing to adopt new technologies, but they lack the knowledge and
awareness of how to apply them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“For instance, he argues, currently,
the government extension workers and select projects working in this field are
only able to reach a limited number of horticulture farmers, so the demand for
training and knowledge is much higher than what the organizations (government
or non government) are able to supply. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Smallholder farmer’s still lack
availability of high quality inputs in high potential areas, such as Iringa,
Njombe, Mbeya, Morogoro, Zanzibar, Dodoma, a move that frustrate their efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He further says that quality of inputs
needs to be closely monitored by authorities as there are numerous agro-dealers
selling low quality or fake inputs, which are seriously affecting the farmer’s
capacity to thrive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Access to capital for both cost of
production as well as small investments in infrastructure such as wells,
boreholes for access to water, and irrigation equipment are also challenges
facing the farmers” Dr. Pluke notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Partnership </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">One
of the key partners with TAPP was Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA), an
apex body for the multi-million-industry in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Commenting,
TAHA CEO, Ms Jacqueline Mkindi says; “Oooh Yes,... our partnership with Fintrac,
the USAID Contractor for TAPP project, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is one of its own kind and started long time
ago in 2007. We have a long but very good history and memories around this
marriage, starting from the implementation of the TAP to the currently winding
TAPP”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to Ms Mkindi, who is a 2015 women achievement prestigious award winner on
agriculture category, TAHA used to be a USAID-Fintrac sub-grantee until when it
graduated to stand on its own and manage a direct grant with USAID. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“This
alone tells a lot…..for a local organization to be able to implement a direct
USAID grant, means the institutional capacity and systems are right. TAHA is
actually the first local organization to secure and manage direct grant from
the USAID” she explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ms Mkindi further says that Fintrac therefore contributed
significantly in building TAHA capacity in various ways. Indeed over the years,
TAHA gained a lot from the interaction with senior Fintrac officials like Dr.
Steve New, Kimberly, Laura and Tom Closbatch before, during and after signing the
award with USAID. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not to mention the relationship with TAPP technical team, TAHA
boss notes, adding that they have been working as children of the same family
benefiting from their different strengths in addressing various issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I remember when we were applying for the USAID grant, I
requested Fintrac to second Dr. Richard Pluke to TAHA to technically assist us
in that process…. And I did not believe it when I received that email from
Fintrac that my request was granted. Richard therefore assisted us a lot in
building our internal systems. And that helped us tremendously” she recalls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Speaking of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Antonio, Ms
Mkindi says, </span>he is just awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“He is such a transformative leader who is able to very well
integrate his strong technical and management skills. I mean, it has been
exciting and rewarding to work with the Fintrac staff right from those in the
field to the top officials in Washington DC. I personally find them to be very
supportive and professional” TAHA CEO observes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ms Mkindi reveals that TAHA haS recruited some staff from
Fintrac, who have been very well trained, and this has been part of
sustainability of TAPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Specific <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">objectives</span> to
achieve while working with Fintrac on Mboga Matunda (vegetable and fruits) area,
enhancement of business enabling environment, access to reliable, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">equitable, profitable markets and other trade
facilitation issues as well as on logistics and information dissemination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">TAHA
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services to the industry mainly in the area of advocacy, technical support and
market access and trade facilitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">TAHA
has also expanded its membership and partnership base across the country and in
the region. Its advocacy interventions, for example, have been implemented
beyond the Tanzania borders as it has been working to address the various cross
border trade issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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generally the organization has gained more muscles as a true voicing platform
and a representative of the horticultural industry in Tanzania” Ms Mkindi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By ADAM IHUCHA
--- </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hundreds of wildebeest have died in Mara River as they
attempt to cross from Serengeti national park in Tanzania into </span><span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya to fulfill their annual migration loop.</span><span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
mass wildebeest deaths have alarmed conservationists and triggered
investigations, but the exact cause of the mysterious die-offs remains
unknown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA)’s Principal ecologist, Dr James
Wakibara told The Empire Voice in an interview that they have deployed
veterinaries in Serengeti to investigate the mass wildebeest deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“Though we believe this is a natural deaths, but scientifically, we have
to prove. So we are waiting findings from the veterinaries who have been
deployed in Serengeti to verify” Dr Wakibara explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The incident has rekindled a sad memories of the worst catastrophe occurred
in 2007, where nearly </span><span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10,000
wildebeest died in a mass drowning in Mara river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">In an earlier statement TANAPA confirmed the tragedy that occurred on September
27, saying the mass wildebeest deaths in Mara River could be a natural
phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Spectacular wildebeest migration is an annual
natural phenomenon which takes place between Serengeti and Maasai Mara Game
Reserve, where up to two millions animals mostly wildebeest and zebra move in a
clockwise rotational route determined by the <span style="color: #151515;">availability
of grazing and water.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">TANAPA’s spokesperson, Pascal Shelutete says during
the migration a number of catastrophes occur, including disease, predation and accidents,
which put the livelihood of migrating animals at high risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“Drowning in Mara River is one of the occurrences
during the migration in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem and it is estimated that
more than 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey” Mr Shelutete says in a
statement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Other causes of deaths include stampede and other
predators, he further says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">However, wildebeest deaths during migration are
replenished with more than 350,000 births per year, TANAPA says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“<span style="color: #0e0f14;">In view of the above,
TANAPA would like to inform the public that the deaths are purely natural and
not much could be done to prevent” Mr Shelutete explains<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0f14; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">He adds, in the national parks and
other protected areas, nature is always left to take its own course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">From the
sprawling Serengeti plains to the champagne-colored hills of Kenya’s
Masai Mara, over 1.4 million wildebeests, 200,000 zebra and gazelle,
relentlessly tracked by Africa’s great predators, migrate in a
clockwise fashion over 1,800 miles each year in search of rain-ripened grass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There is no real beginning or end to a wildebeest's journey. Its life is
an endless pilgrimage, a constant search for food and water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The only beginning is at the moment
of birth. Estimated 350,000 wildebeest calves are born during a
six-week period each year - usually between late January and mid-March.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Planet’s remaining largest
wildlife migration – the annual loop of two
million wildebeest across the Serengeti and Maasai Mara
reserve – is a key tourist allure, generating multi-million-dollars
annually. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The habitual migration -
has occurred without interruption for thousands of years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This globally unbeaten spectacle has
led Serengeti to be named the 7<sup>th</sup> Wonder of the World
in the year 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">En route, the animals eat 7,000 tons
of grass a day and drink enough water in Mara River to fill five swimming
pools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0f14; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Activists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0f14; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Serengeti Preservation Foundation
(SPF) executive director, Meyasi Mollel says that ecologists and stakeholders
who love Serengeti-Mara ecosystem to partner and make thorough investigation
and come up with scientific report on the real cause of the mass wildebeest
deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0f14; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“The mass wildebeest deaths shouldn’t
be taken for granted. Ecologists should investigate and come up with scientific
findings” explains Mr Mollel, one of green activists in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0f14; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">He urged the forthcoming government
to revise the law that cut back the conservation budget by 40 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The natural resources-rich country
has just set a 60 percent limit on expenditure for the self-reliant public
corporations, hitting hard the conservation agencies, in the face
of deadly poaching threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A just amended Treasury Registrar
(Power and Functions) Act, Cap 370, has added a section 10A (1) in a bid
to impose a limit for the running overheads of the corporations, which, are not
financed through the government budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, the operation costs of the
self-financing public corporations are restricted not to exceed 60 percent of
their annual gross revenue in any financial year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Moreover, the revised law demands a
70 percent of their balance obtained after deducting the operative expenses
permissible in subsection (1) to be remitted to the consolidated fund.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Finance Minister, Ms Saada Mkuya says
the idea behind the amendments is to make money - making public corporations to
significantly contribute to the consolidated fund.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“We also want to put in place
procedures that will regulate expenditure,” Ms Mkuya explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Though the law seems to target all
public corporations, in reality it eyes Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) and
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These are the only self-sufficient
corporations, as they collect entry fees from tourists and hotels concession
dues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Others like Tanzania Tourists
Board (TTB), Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO), Air Tanzania
Company Limited(ATCL), Tanzania Railway Limited (TRL), State-Mining
Corporation (STAMICO), National Development Corporation (NDC), Tanzania
Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) are reliant on the treasury’s
subsidies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">However, conservationists say that
should the law enforced it will compromise conservation and frustrate efforts
on war against poaching, as it will take away the much-needed resources to
finance the two crucial activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For instance, Tanapa Director
general, Mr Allan Kijazi says that conservation activities alone consume 70
percent of the agency’s Tsh 150 billion ($75 million) gross revenue annually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The remaining 30 percent goes to pay
wages for its 2,190 workers, facilitate development of tourism products and
services, maintain about 7,000 km of roads, 16 airstrips, pay tourism
development levy and other taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Truly, Tanapa is charged
with conservation of eco-systems and tourism development in 16 national
parks, covering nearly 57,024 square kilometres, an area bigger than
Burundi.<br />
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Nature-based or wildlife tourism is the main source of income that is ploughed
back for management, regulation and fulfillment of all organisational mandates
in the national parks.<br />
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“Going by the overheads ceiling, our conservation budget would shrink from 70
to somewhere around 30 percent of our gross revenue because other expenses like
wages and taxes are fixed” Mr Kijazi says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lantinghei SC Extralight"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To make the matters worse, he argues, only Kilimanjaro and
Serengeti national parks are generating a surplus to run other 11 parks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ADAM IHUCHA --Tanzania is developing new tourism products and services into
national parks in its latest efforts to make tourists stay longer in the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">Save
for Serengeti, game drives as a major adventure in most of national parks in
Tanzania, last for a day, making an economic nonsense both for a tourist and a
host country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">In
a bid to change the trend, Tanzania national parks (TANAPA) is developing the new
products and services, an exercise that will cost $10 million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">Tanapa’s
director of tourism and marketing, Mr Ibrahim Mussa said that a canopy walkway
construction is underway at Marang’ thick forest in Manyara national park.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">If
all goes well, this product will be opened come January 2016 to allow tourists
walk above the trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">A
dense Marang forest located on the escarpment above the Manyara Park is a
crucial secondary habitat for migrating elephants from Lake Eyasi and
Ngorongoro crater. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">Cocoon
nests campsite is yet another tourism item in the same park targeting the
holidaymakers whose interests are to nest with the birds in their own cocoon
tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">In
the list of proposed services there’s a horse riding within the scenic Arusha
and Kitulo national parks respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">According
to Mr Mussa the ambitious programme also will see bike tourism introduced on
the </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">iconic Mount Kilimanjaro – the most famous mountain in Africa
to cater for cyclists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We are
creating a special trail up to Shira plateau, nearly</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4,005
metres above sea level</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="background: white;">to accommodate this kind of tourism activity for our
dear tourists” he explained.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed,
bike tourism is estimated to rake in $1.5 billion in the state’s economy of Wisconsin
every year, according to U.S grist.org. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other
proposed products on Mount Kilimanjaro include gliding, to offer holidaymakers a
paragliding adventure on Africa’s highest peak, which is also the world’s
tallest free standing mountain.</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gliding
is a unique experience, similar to the flight of an eagle in the skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is
considered an air sport in which a pilot flies an unmotorized foot-launchable
aircraft, very light, called a hang glider or delta plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mussa further said that rhinos in both Serengeti and Mkomazi national parks
also would be free for visitors to see as part of the products. Currently the
rare rhinos are restricted for tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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safaris CEO, Constantine Ngelengi Malembela commended the Tanapa, saying the
move promises a better future for local tourism industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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planned new tourism products would be a major boost to our tourism because
there’s growing market of tourists who look beyond wildlife, mountain and
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unveiled its well designed ‘landscape tourism product’, to offer holidaymakers
a glimpse of a country’s unexplored scenery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year, up from one million visitors in 2014, earning the economy close to $2.25
billion, up from the last year’s $1.88 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the five-year marketing blueprint rolled out in 2013, Tanzania
anticipates to welcome two million tourists by the close of 2017, boosting
the revenue from the current $2 billion to nearly $3.8 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Indeed, the World Bank says Tanzania can earn an
average of $16 billion a year in the next decade if the government takes
serious measures to reform the sector.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That amount is nearly eight times the current
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<br />
<span style="background: white;">The latest Tanzania Economic Update published by
the World Bank argues, this strategic industry can grow and create more
high-paying jobs, and closer linkages with businesses and local
communities.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">To realize this opportunity, the government
should simplify its system of taxes and fees and make its revenue
allocations more transparent.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">"There is no doubt Tanzania is in a good
place with tourism and yet could do considerably better," says
Philippe Dongier, Country Director for Tanzania, Burundi and Uganda.
"Tanzania has abundant natural tourism attractions and is well
recognized internationally”.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">But there is potential for further growth as
also emphasized by the government; and some of the needed reforms are
quite urgent as the status quo could be costly for the country, Mr Dongier
says.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-90040380132341525792015-09-17T15:43:00.001+03:002015-09-17T15:45:00.183+03:00EAC Secures a Green Light to Reclaim Soroti Flying School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">By ADAM IHUCHA</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">The East African council of
ministers has given the secretariat a green light to reclaim the former regional
aviation academy in Soroti, eastern Uganda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">Uganda took over the 48-year
old </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">East African Civil Aviation Academy (EACAA)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">, famous as Soroti Flying School, after the collapse of the
former EAC in 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">But, t</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he cash-strapped academy is now a shadow of what it was, with key
infrastructures being in dilapidated state, prompting a </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">closure threat for flouting an ICAO’s safety standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">However,
the 32<sup>nd</sup> meeting of the EAC council of ministers sympathized with the
academy’s sorrow state, sanctioning its transfer to be an institution of the
EAC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">“EAC
secretary general should submit a proposal for the re-instatement of the Soroti
Flying School to the 12nd Sectoral Council on Transport, Communications and Meteorology,”
reads part of the report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">The
council further directed the EAC SG to report progress in its 33<sup>rd</sup>
meeting, the document indicates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">It
is understood; the negotiations between the EAC and Uganda over the imminent
transfer of the academy have been concluded, with the latter approving the move
unconditionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">“We have agreed wholeheartedly
that Soroti Flying School to be taken back as an institution of the EAC. After
all that is where it was originally belonged to” Uganda’s Minister for EAC
Affairs, Shem Bageine said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">On July 3, 2014 the Presidents
of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame conceived
an idea of designating the EACAA as one of the aviation centres of excellence
in the EAC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">However, they underlined the
need to make it as one of the EAC’s institutions first in a bid to start
enjoying budget from the regional body, before designating it as the centre of
excellence in aviation studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">The EAC SG, Dr. Richard
Sezibera confirms that upon re-instatement to the academy will have access to
funds from EAC development partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Big Caslon";">However, Dr. Sezibera warns,
the school must be run as an autonomous institution of the EAC in order to
benefit from the restructuring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">The EACAA’s Acting Director, Ronald Lodiong cites
the modernization of infrastructure, enhancing of the training curricula and
the commissioning of a study by the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) as key measures necessary towards the sustainability and revitalization
of the Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">The institution, which has a capacity of training
108 students, offers wide scope training for commercial and private piloting,
flight instructors and airport maintenance engineering among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">In 1967, the former East African Authority
Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda agreed to establish the East African
civil aviation school at Soroti in Uganda, following the latter’s offer of the
premises to host the academy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">As it happened, the institution was dully built
at Soroti airfield and admitted the first bunch of students in September 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">The main objective of setting up the school was
to transfer aviation skills from the expatriate staff to pre-independence and
immediate post-independence local people to meet the manpower demands of the
regional aviation industry, mainly that of East African Airways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">During its hey days, the Soroti flying school was
an acclaimed global training centre for aviation technical personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">Unfortunately, the academy has in recent years
been struggling with budget shortfalls and a shortage of aircraft and other
equipment needed to train students better and restore the erstwhile shine of
those years, when many of today’s senior pilots in East Africa actually learned
to fly and got their first wings with a PPL from Soroti, before graduating
further with a CPL and then going abroad to attain their ATPL’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">A Tanzanian renowned pilot, Captain Phillemon
Kisamo says that for the academy to restore its old glory it needs to become an
ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS member.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">“This would enable graduates of the academy to be
waived from the requirement of being evaluated or have their certificates
validated by members of TRAINAIR PLUS” Captain Kisamo explained.<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">The natural resources-rich country has just set a 60 percent limit on expenditure for </span>the self-reliant public corporations, hitting hard the conservation agencies,<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> in the face of </span>deadly poaching threat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">A just amended Treasury Registrar (Power and Functions) Act, Cap 370, has added a section 10A</span> (1) in a bid to impose a limit for the running overheads of the corporations, which, are not financed through the government budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, the operation costs of the self-financing public corporations are restricted not to exceed 60 percent of their annual gross revenue in any financial year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Moreover, the revised law demands a 70 percent of their balance obtained after deducting the operative expenses permissible in subsection (1) to be remitted to the consolidated fund.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finance Minister, Ms Saada Mkuya says the idea behind the amendments is to make money - making public corporations to significantly contribute to the consolidated fund.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“We also want to put in place procedures that will regulate expenditure,” Ms Mkuya explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Though the law seems to target all public corporations, in reality it eyes Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) and Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These are the only self-sufficient corporations, as they collect entry fees from tourists and hotels concession dues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Others like<span style="background: white;"> Tanzania Tourists Board (TTB), Tanzania Electric Supply Company (</span>TANESCO), <span style="background: white;">Air Tanzania Company Limited</span> (ATCL), <span style="background: white;">Tanzania Railway Limited</span><span style="background: white;"> </span>(TRL),<span style="background: white;"> State-Mining Corporation</span> (STAMICO), <span style="background: white;">National Development Corporation </span> (NDC), <span style="background: white;">Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation</span><span style="background: white;"> (</span>TPDC) are reliant on the treasury’s subsidies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, conservationists say that should the law enforced it will compromise conservation and frustrate efforts on war against poaching, as it will take away the much-needed resources to finance the two crucial activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For instance, Tanapa Director general, Mr Allan Kijazi says that conservation activities alone consume 70 percent of the agency’s Tsh 150 billion ($75 million) gross revenue annually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The remaining 30 percent goes to pay wages for its 2,190 workers, facilitate development of tourism products and services, maintain about 7,000 km of roads, 16 airstrips, pay tourism development levy and other taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">Truly, Tanapa </span>is charged with <span style="background: white;">conservation of eco-systems and tourism development in 16 national parks, covering nearly 57,024 square kilometres, an area bigger than Burundi. </span><br /><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14pt;">Nature-based or wildlife tourism is the main source of income that is ploughed back for management, regulation and fulfillment of all organisational mandates in the national parks.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The financially struggling parks include Gombe, Katavi, Kitulo, Mikumi, Mahale, Mkomazi, Ruaha, Rubondo Island, Saadani, Udzungwa mountains and Saanane Island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Arusha, Tarangire and Lake Manyara national parks, on the other hand, are generating revenue sufficient to break even.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">“Conservation involves costly tasks and must be done regardless whether or not the areas being conserved generate income” Mr Kijazi underlines.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the case of Ncaa, the law will trim down the conservation and community development overheads from current 60 to 20 percent of its Tsh 60 billion ($30 million) gross annual revenue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">Ncaa was established in 1959 </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">with an</span><span style="color: #222222;"> <span style="background: white;">eye to protect an area covering 8,300 square kilometers, promote tourism, and develop the Maasai population living within the area and their livestock.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Acting chief conservator, Mr Julius Kidebe says that the law would frustrate the conservation efforts, war against poaching and affect the Maasai community welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With the conservation budget cut, he worries that the poachers will triumph, as it would be a daydream for the hungry and ill equipped rangers to win the battle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Conservation is something we are not supposed to play with, otherwise its ripple effect will do harm our $2.05 billion tourism industry” Mr Kidebe says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">Tourism, which overtaken gold as a key foreign currency earner, directly employs close to half a million Tanzanians and contributes to almost 25 percent of total exports earnings.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">It represents approximately 17.5 percent of Tanzania's total GDP but the level could be even more when considering its indirect impacts on other areas such as agriculture and transportation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the move to cut conservation funds could pile pressure on a government that has been heavily criticized for its inability to stop a flood of poached ivory being stripped from its national parks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For instance, Tanzania’s elephant population is one of the continent’s largest. But data, released in June 2015 by the government, showed that between 2009 and 2014 the number dropped from 109,051 to 43,330, equivalent to a 60 percent catastrophic loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">The world-renowned conservationist, Dr</span><span style="background: white;">. Alfred Kikoti, cautioned the state to be careful and not to milk the conservation agencies until they bleed to death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Somehow, somewhere, some people think Tanapa and Ncaa are generating a lot of money, yes, they do, but a lions share of the cash goes to protect our flora and fauna” Dr Kikoti who works at the World Elephant Center in Tanzania, explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, a Law Lecturer at Tumaini University Makumira, Elifuraha Laltaika says; “The objectives of the Amendments, namely contribution to the consolidated fund is crucial. It is from the fund that judges are paid for example so it should be stable”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Regarding its impacts on conservation and community, the Law Don says it is insignificant: “I am not convinced that the cut will significantly affect conservation. Ncaa and Tanapa may improve the management of their revenues and embrace community based natural resources management, which is comparably cheaper and more sustainable.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-38626654423454926642015-07-17T14:04:00.001+03:002015-07-17T14:04:09.763+03:00Landscape, a Great New Frontier in Tanzania's Tourism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By ADAM IHUCHA—Tanzania's
bound-tourists now have a reason to smile, thanks to a local tour firm for
rolling out a new tourism product beyond wildlife viewing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">An innovative Arusha based tour
company—Congema Safaris—has just unveiled its well designed ‘landscape tourism
product’, to offer holidaymakers a glimpse of a country’s unexplored scenery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">After two years of painstaking study,
sheer hard working and considerable private funding, the landscape tourism
product is now ready for Tanzania’s bound tourists with less interest on
mainstream game drive, says Congema CEO, ConstantineNgelengi Malembela.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Spectacular landscape is a great new
frontier in tourism, promising a better future to the tourists who look beyond
wildlife, mountain and beach” Mr malembela says as he flagged off the first
group of 50 tourists to experience the new product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The
holidaymakers mostly from France, Switzerland and Sweden, who commenced their
five-days epic journey on Sunday morning, have been covering 25 km a day.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> The 125
km trip took the tourists through King’ori village under the slope of splendid
Mount Meru in Arusha to legendary Momella Lake, which straddles the border of
picturesque Arusha national park.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">After Momella Lake they went through
Mukuru savannah land, where on the east side the visitors have been able to
see iconic<b> </b>Mount Kilimanjaro – the most famous mountain in
Africa and the world's tallest freestanding peak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr Malembela says that the heroic
safari also taken the tourists through Longido wildlife management area, Lake
Natron and Olpopong’i cultural village.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Much
of this route is a green and lush with vegetation and memorable landscapes”
Congema chief explains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The group director, Gerald Verde net,
says that it was a milestone achievement to be able to organize the trip around
Mount Kilimanjaro after having done so in other African countries of Kenya and
Botswana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“It is existing to come in Tanzania.
I am happy to meet such a welcoming community and country” chipped in one of
tourist, Vincent Revoire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The East African
country's stunning wildlife, expansive volcanic crater and intriguing islands
all set it apart as a unique destination. Massive Mount Kilimanjaro just adds
to its allure.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Indian Ocean laps
Tanzania's eastern edge between Kenya and Mozambique, and the "spice
island" of Zanzibar is 22 miles off the mainland.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-87616207027579692942015-07-17T13:52:00.000+03:002015-07-17T13:52:27.924+03:00Tanzania Offers EADB's Bonds Tax Relief<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By ADAM IHUCHA --<span style="background: white;">The East African Development Bank (EADB) has received
a major boost, as Tanzania granted a tax relief on income derived from its
bonds, as it seeks to aid the bank to bolster its lending capacity.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2015/16 budget, Finance Minister,
Ms Saada Mkuya had proposed an amendment of the Income Tax Act, cap 332, among
others, to exempt income tax and interests derived from bonds issued by the
EADB on the Tanzania domestic capital market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As luck would have it, on June 25,
2015, Tanzania’s parliament, endorsed the finance bill 2015, formally amending
the law as per minister’s proposal, offering the regional lender -- EADB and
its bonds holders a sigh of relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This implies that EADB as issuer and
the holders of its <span style="background: white;">bonds now would be
eligible for a 30 percent free income tax liability and interests derived from
its bonds listed on </span>the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ms Mkuya says that the measure is
expected to bolster the Bank's lending capacity and therefore provides more
concessional loans to mega development projects in the country such as
infrastructure, agriculture and energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Experts seem to agree
that tax cuts would certainly </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">stimulate
the EADB bonds listed on the Tanzania’s capital market--DSE, as the relief
tends to attract investors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nicholaus
Duhia - Managing Director - Taxplan Associates Ltd in Arusha says that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">bonds offer an essential component of many financial plans, but
there is always the sticky matter of taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Here we are talking about 30 percent income tax cut on EADB’s
bonds. This is great relief to afford the bank to <span style="background: white;">prop up its capital base to be able to play its lending role
successfully</span>,” he notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dar Es Salaam Stock
Exchange (DSE) research and market development manager, Mr Ibrahim Mshindo says
that </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the bank is likely to raise a
relative cheap capital because more investors are expected to be attracted with
sweeteners on tax exemption<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“We think that the government’s move
on tax exemption will enhance the bank’s ability to offer low cost loans for investment
in various development projects such as infrastructures” Mr Mshindo explains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to him, the EADB had issued
bonds on DSE in the years 1999, 2002 and 2005 where it had raised Tshs 12.5
billion ($6.25 million), Tshs 20 billion ($10 million) and Tshs 15 billion
($7.5 million) respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Efforts to get a word from the EADB’s
Director general, Ms Vivianne Yeda proved futile as her personal assistant
Elizabeth Kiago says that she was away from office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“We appreciate your enquiry and
interest in EADB. The Director General is away from the office. We will be able
to revert to you upon her return next week” Ms Kiago replies in e-mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is understood, <span style="background: white;">the bank's financial performance has continued to
improve in terms of both returns on assets (RoA) and on equity (RoE) in recent
years.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For instance the total assets grew by 26
percent to $306 million in March 2015, up from $242 million in March 2014,
latest data shows.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This significant increase in bank’s assets was
financed by additional capital payments from the EAC member states, increased
profitability and revaluation surplus.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Figures from the EAC indicate that the EADB net
worth surged to $229 million, up from $175 million in the period under review,
representing an increase of 31 percent.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The total income in 2014 was $9.8 million
compared to $8.5 million in 2013, the EAC data shows.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As if that was not enough, the portfolio is
robust and well diversified across all sectors. Statistics indicate that the
bank’s portfolio increased by 11 percent from $114.9 million in March 2014 to
$127 million in March 2015.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The bank’s efficiency has also improved
consistently with the cost to income ratio declining to 48 percent in March
2014, from 51 percent in 2013.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The EADB also saw
non-performing loans (NPLs) dropped sharply to 1.4 per cent as at the end of
last year compared to 32 per cent in 2010, prompting global</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> rating agency Moody’s upgrading the bank to Baa3,
which carries a stable outlook, from the weaker Ba1 issued in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By the end of last
year, paid-up capital of the lender stood at $173 million that was 14 per cent
higher than the previous year. The amount was a 73 per cent increase compared
to December 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With the current
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
ADAM IHUCHA --Some few years back Tanzanians had welcomed a guest from as far
as Netherlands, little knowing that they have received an angel with hidden
treasure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rijk Zwaan company, which landed in Arusha was exploring the best place
to invest and bring the world-class technology to produce high quality
horticultural seeds for local and exports markets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now the horticultural growers are laughing all the way to the banks,
proving that kindness is never wasted, as Rijk Zwaan is slowly, but surely
transferring the green house technology, quality seeds for high value crops and
skills to local farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rijk Zwaan, which ranks fifth in the world’s biggest vegetable breeding
companies, earned the first slot in the annual overview of the 100 most
significant companies in Dutch greenhouse horticulture (Hilenraad 100) for 4
years in a row as a result of its approach of investing in technology, skills
and people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The approach is the brainchild of Rijk Zwaan, who started with a seed
shop and became the founding father of the family property, which dates back to
1920s when he first developed varieties that improved the business of his
customers.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was this investment in people which earned Mr. Zwaan extra mileage in
the trade as he worked alongside his workers regardless of rank; the legacy to
which Rijk Zwaan adheres to date. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With 30 subsidiaries throughout the world, Rijk Zwaan stands at the base
of the international chain of food production that comprises growers, traders
and retailers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rijk Zwaan prides itself in contributing to a food secure and healthy
future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA)’s chief executive officer, Ms
Jacqueline Mkindi is proud of Rijk Zwaan for becoming a real blessing company
to the country’s horticultural industry.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: 14pt;">Historically,
greenhouse horticulture in Tanzania started over 20 years ago in the early
1990’s. For years a few foreign and local flower and seed companies producing
for export spearheaded the sector.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ms Mkindi says very few greenhouses were used for
vegetable farming by Tanzanian farmers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since then, small-scale greenhouses became available
through input supply companies and through self-made wooden greenhouses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the protected environment in a greenhouse, the
use of improved hybrid seeds became necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So Rijk Zwaan Afrisem has been availing these seeds
for high-end greenhouse cultivation from the mother company Rijk Zwaan’s
portfolio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore
Rijk Zwaan Afrisem has been breeding for 7 years now improving African eggplant,
Chinese pepper and African kale for open field production. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From 2016 these will be available commercially.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Around the country more and more farmers turn
professional and start using improved technologies </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">practices <span style="color: black;">such as </span>raised beds, <span style="color: black;">plastic mulching, drip irrigation and greenhouses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A greenhouse allows controlling the temperature and
humidity, protects a crop from rain and partially from</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pests <span style="color: black;">and makes
planning and a predictable harvest possible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">About 240
hectares of vegetable farming countrywide now takes place in greenhouses,
providing the market with healthy diets while creating a source of income to
growers, among others.</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vegetable shortage though, was the bane of Mwanza’s life. Thanks to this
initiative the country’s second largest city is now assured of the side dish
from greenhouses, which have been sprouting in the region since.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vegetable from Morogoro, Iringa, and Tanga, the regions, which supply
Dar es Salaam with edible leaves, fruits, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems,
or flower parts, could not reach the distant Lake Zone region.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the introduction of more greenhouses than any other region on its
fringes markets in the lakeside city are now laden with vegetables, prompting
some of the farmers to export their surplus harvest. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter Ngongosek</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">e</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, one of the farmers based in Magu, a
district with easy access to lake water, harvests tomatoes, sweet pepper and
cucumber and sells them on the Dar es Salaam market.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ngongoseko, who is one of the Rijk Zwaan Afrisem's 600 plus trainees,
owns a farm bordering Lake Victoria with 3 ha of greenhouses.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And in the near future Dar es Salaam too will no longer only rely on
vegetables from the up-country regions as several farmers in the outskirts of
the commercial city have jumped onto the greenhouse bandwagon, Harald Peeters,
the Rijk Zwaan country managing director states. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Motivated by one of the firm’s trainees, most of Dar es Salaam's new
vegetable farmers using greenhouses are seeking the right know-how to maximise
harvests from the use of the greenhouses, he observes. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A greenhouse alone is not enough,” Peeters, whose firm is a global
specialist in breeding varieties and producing high-quality vegetable seeds,
argues.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Innovative research and development, inspired by the
wishes and tastes of customers plays a pivotal role in Rijk Zwaan’s success.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A knowledgeable and organised vegetable farmer uses mulching, hybrid
seeds, pest scouting, drip irrigation and fertilising, and Integrated Pest
Management”, Peeters explains. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He should, in addition, know the time, quantity and quality of produce
his market needs and above all invest in people instead of the hardware alone,”
he adds.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some inadequately informed farmers in Dar es Salaam have unfortunately
ended up buying greenhouses and recruiting workers they pay meagre wages to
grow the vegetables as they visit them once in a while. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a result, they found themselves harvesting insignificant quantities
of vegetables whose quality could not fetch good prices enough to recover costs
of buying the greenhouses. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After experiencing the difficulties first hand, the farmers jointly
consulted the 7 year-old Arusha-based Rijk Zwaan Afrisem, which agreed to set
up a demonstration plot in Bagamoyo District, Coast Region. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In fact, one of the farmers has volunteered his greenhouses to be used
for demonstrations,” says Peeters, cautioning that horticulture was a full time
career rather than a part time job. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These Dar es Salaam vegetable growers are a reflection of most of the
country’s subsistence farmers who never bother with knowledge and often loath
hybrid seeds because they cannot be re-used; forgetting that those seeds have
added value and can guarantee crops with high yields, long shelf life, early
harvest, and protection against pests and diseases.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Vegetable production calls for skills if farmers are to predict their
bumper harvests and meet their market demands,” says Peeters, adding that the
on-the-job training Rijk Zwaan Afrisem offers its clients, is practical and
current state of the art.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rijk Zwaan Afrisem also enlightens farmers on the need for analysing
soil and irrigation water in order to raise their vegetable yields.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Farming is all about precise timing and prediction,” stresses Peeters
whose firm specialises in vegetable seeds and service provision.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The yield potential for hybrid vegetable seeds can give a farmer up to
five times production and income provided he adheres to growing methods.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As urbanisation is projected to rise from 28 to 45 per cent by 2030, the
demand for quality vegetable will continue to grow and prices will become more
lucrative.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We go into long-term partnerships, you buy our seeds along with
technical know-how and support,” says Peeters, believing a happy farmer is a
returning client.</span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We respect our business relations and our environment in all areas of
our work,” he says. </span><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Given the increasing scarcity of arable land, the vulnerability of our
ecosystems to climate change and increasing demand for food, it is paramount
that yields per area unit have to go up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The use of more sophisticated technology in food production such as
greenhouses, drip irrigation and integrated pest management (IPM), is
inevitable so as to feed the rapidly growing African population, he says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was grateful to TAHA for</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
mobilizing and building institutional capacity and facilitates enabling
environment and technical assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“We have strived to assist peasants
to transact business with exporters in a win-win framework,” Ms Mkindi
explains; adding that the industry now earns the country nearly $500 million
annually, up from a mere $64 million in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">TAHA assists farmers to adopt
standard compliance practices and addresses challenges compounded by
government’s numerous taxes and levies, particularly now Skills Development
Levy and land rent fee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It also supports investors in
horticulture in the registration of essential horticultural inputs including
pesticides, fertilizers and biological control agents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Through its logistic firm -- TAHA
Fresh Handling Ltd, the association absorbs costly and time-consuming
cross-border non-tariff barriers to ease the burdens investors face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">TAHA addresses policy and regulatory
hurdles for the industry to thrive, chipped in Policy and advocacy Manager,
Anthony Chamanga.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“We</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> also links
farmers to access Rijk Zwaan hybrid seeds for high crop value crops so that
they can realize booming yields” Mr Chamanga notes.<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He
further says that TAHA promotes greenhouse technology, to increase crop
productivity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Indeed,
through TAHA efforts, several farmers in Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Mwanza have
adopted the technology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright";">By ADAM IHUCHA --</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The East African
Community is hoping to secure a $20 million from African Development Bank to
improve safety and security of navigation in Lake Victoria waters.</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Security and safety of
maritime operations on Lake Victoria waters remains a major challenge to EAC, with
available data showing they are responsible for nearly 5,000 deaths annually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is understood,
during the 2014/15 financial year, Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) was
closely engaged with the AfDB over the funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m pleased to say
that AfDB is in the process to approve a $20 million to enhance safety and
security of maritime operations on Lake Victoria,” says chairman of EAC Council
of ministers, Dr Abdallah Saadalla.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr Saadalla says that
AfDB, would inject the funds through the Multilateral Lake Victoria Maritime
Communication and Transport (MLVMCT) project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The project is designed around the 4th
EAC Development Strategy (2011-2016) to address maritime transportation and
navigation safety on Lake Victoria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">LVBC
executive secretary Dr Canisius Kanangire says erratic change of weather, poor
communication, unreliable rescue services; overloading and malfunctioning
vessels are major factors behind the 5,000 deaths occurred every year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus the project is expected to
contribute to the provision of safe, efficient, cheap and environmentally
friendly transport links, and fishing activities that are essential to
achieving the goals of poverty reduction and sustainable development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blueprint<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The blueprint details show that the
project will spearhead the establishment of a Lake Victoria maritime
communication network (MCN). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This component aims to stretch the
range of the current global system for mobile (GSM) communications system to its
technical maximum, using the extended range features. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It also includes a full application of
the networks’ positioning systems, providing accurate location of callers in
distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The system will also see the
implementation of a many-to-many communication technology to be used during
rescue missions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This will involve repositioning and
redirecting of the telecommunications receivers on existing base transmitter
Stations (BTS) already installed by the telecommunications service providers in
areas around the Lake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Establishment of Regional Maritime
Rescue Communication Centre (MRCC) in Mwanza, Tanzania; and two other
sub-centers in Kisumu, Kenya and Port Bell in Uganda, is key component of the
project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the blueprint, the centres
will be capable to receive and respond to distress calls, locating the victims,
mobilizing, controlling and coordinating rescue missions by rescue boats. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“MRCC will be operated by certified
rescue coordinator and will be a twenty four hour command centre of all rescue
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There will be 16 emergency searches and
rescue (SAR) stations distributed around the lake equipped with fast rescue
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Three additional boats to be stationed
at the main SAR -- one for each country-- will have larger capacity and first
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The SARs will be co-located within the
Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization’s (LVFO) fishing landing sites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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services would involve installation of weather data collection system and
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will have a positive impact on Lake Victoria’s waterway navigation, making it
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In particular, the project is anticipated to </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">increase the safety of navigation –
accurate positioning of vessels in canals and rivers means fewer collisions and
makes it possible to safely navigate even in adverse weather conditions, such
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Union Organisation (FUO) in Mwanza, Mr Juvenari Matagili commended the
initiative, saying it would go along way to reduce marine accidents and improve
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By ADAM IHUCHA-- Commercial farmers would raise their
glasses to toast for remarkable earnings this year, as the state offers
them a huge tax breaks in a bid to spur agriculture development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the 2015/16 budget, the Finance Minister, Ms Saada
Mkuya announced to include agricultural inputs and farm implements in the
VAT exemption list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The VAT Act 2014 aims to expand the tax base by capturing
most economic activities, would have been imposing standard 18 per cent VAT on
the agricultural inputs and pushing production costs high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“The new VAT Act, which comes into
force on July 1, abolishes tax on essential goods such as agricultural inputs
and implements as well as all capital goods” Ms Mkuya said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Initially, the new VAT law had excluded over 300 essential
modern agricultural technologies and supplies critical for farming
mechanization<b> </b>such as plant protection substances in VAT tax
zero-rated items.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Act also would have hit hard irrigation and water
harvesting technologies, pest management products</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> such as plant protection substances especially
chemicals and biological control agents.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Others were special planting materials like</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> plastic bags and seed
trays, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">storage, post-harvest and cooling facilities and equipment</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> such as refrigerators, materials
for construction and expansion of farm infrastructures including
greenhouses </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">packaging
materials of all kinds.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“We are very grateful indeed to our government for being
generous to us. We are very happy and our hopes are that this tax relief will
translate into our earnings this year” says Renalda Mlay, a farmer in
Kilimanjaro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Bright';">The finance minister also reinstated agriculture in the
skills Development levy (SDL) exemption list; seeking to amendment of VETA
and Finance Acts to accommodate the changes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For a decade, commercial farmers have been exempted from
paying a five percent SDL, in a bid to encourage investment in agriculture
industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But in 2013, the government amended the vocational
educational training (VET) Act 2006, where it re-introduced the SDL for
farmers with more than four employees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to revised law, farmers were required to pay the
five percent of the total gross emoluments paid to their workers in each month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gross emolument comprises all the benefits extended to the
employee such as wages, leave pay, health care payments, bonus, gratuity,
allowances, and any subsistence paid by employers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This implies, in other words, almost everything paid to
the employee in farming industry would have been charged SDL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As if that was not enough, the government has also
reduced land rent rate from Tshs 10,000 ($4.6) per acre per annum to Tshs 5,000
($2.3) for urban farming; and Tshs 1,000 ($0.457) to Tshs 400 ($0.183) for
rural farms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Policy and advocacy Manager at Tanzania Horticultural
Association (TAHA), Mr Anthony Chamanga commended the government for listening
their voice from the farm and grants their wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"All these positive developments have come at the
right time as we are struggling with other partners to streamline the agricultural
taxes, levies and fees to improve business climate in the industry” Mr Chamanga
explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With an enabling environment and
massive involvement of mostly women and youth in horticultural farming at the
moment, only the sky is the limit, TAHA Chief executive officer, Ms Jacqueline
Mkindi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Our target is to hit an annual
export value of $1 billion in 2018 and double in two years’ time to reach a
staggering $1.85 billion by 2020,” Ms Mkindi says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Horticulture brought home an extra
$102 million in 2014, cementing its position as Tanzania’s one of major sources
of foreign exchange alongside tourism, manufacturing, and mining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Data from Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) shows $477
million worth of horticultural products were exported last year, up from $375
million in 2013, equivalent to 38 per cent of total agricultural exports valued
at $1.18 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-828005015762669812015-05-13T14:42:00.000+03:002015-05-13T14:42:48.049+03:00‘Communication With a Purpose’ Flies high Habari Maalum Star <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By ADAM IHUCHA</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">--<span style="background: white;">Innovation has started paying dividends at Habari
Maalum College (HMC), as the learning institution has been exporting
tailor-made media courses overseas for three years now. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> HMC Public Relations and Marketing
officer, Emmy Kimaro says export does mean physically shipping the course
materials abroad, but it means attracting foreigner students, who
actually come to learn and take the knowledge with them. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> One of the latest well-packaged courses
the Arusha-based college to export to media students in African and European
countries was ‘Communication with a Purpose’. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> “Besides shedding light on communication
skills and how to compose the best message with calculated positive impact to
the audience, the course module is also flying the Tanzania’s flag higher” Ms
Kimaro notes. </span><br />
<span style="background: white;"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white;"> HMC, which offers media and leadership
courses, attracted a dozen of students in pursuit of a diploma course in
journalism from as far as Sweden last week. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> Ida Anderson, one of the Swedish students,
says “the course is so exciting and the best for journalism students, as it
offers a modern effective way of sending a message to the audience.” </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> “In addition to expanding our horizons,
the course provides us with a glimpse of how we can change the society through
communications” Ms Anderson explains. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> Stockholm-based Kaggeholm College
lecturer Mats Levander concurs with her, saying such kind of training exchange
programmes went a long way in providing students with a multicultural
understanding. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> HMC has, in addition to Sweden, attracted
students from African countries including Mozambique, Kenya, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Ethiopia, among others. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> “We are grateful for our tailor-made
‘Communication with a Purpose’ to become a flagship course for export as it
attracts several European and African students,” HMC principal Jackson Kaluzi
says. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> The HMC chief says they designed best
courses in the wake of globalisation to enable their graduates to work anywhere
in the world. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> Indeed, a latest study shows over 90 per
cent of the graduates HMC produces are fit for the job market across Africa. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> In real terms, various organisations
on the continent have recruited 92 per cent of HMC alumni in both media and
leadership faculties. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;"> “This implies that HMC graduates
in both faculties are well groomed for the job market across the world,”
stresses Jan-Erik Nyman, the director of IBRA Media for East, Central and
Southern Africa.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-10225718506125156802015-05-13T14:18:00.002+03:002015-05-13T14:19:25.401+03:00Karibu Travel Market Tanzania Right Around the Corner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By
ADAM IHUCHA -- Arusha, the northern safari capital is bracing up to host the annual
Karibu Travel Market Tanzania (TMT) slated for the end of this month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
East African premier travel and tourism exhibition to be held at Magereza
grounds near Arusha airport on May 29 - 31, this year, will attract nearly
160 exhibitors from around the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tanzania
Associations of Tour Operators (Tato) owns the second largest tourism show in
African after the South Africa’s Indaba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Part
of the 15-year-old outdoor event’s uniqueness and excitement is that it offers
a real safari experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Organisers
say the event, which is registered with the UN World Tourism Organization
(UNWTO), will also draw nearly 8,000 visitors from within and outside the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Karibu
TMT 2015 focuses on promoting the new tourists allures and destinations to the
outside world,” says Zuher Fazal, the show’s chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
event, which is well covered by local, regional, and international media;
attracts hundreds of exhibitors, delegates, and thousands of visitors,
showcasing a diverse of local and regional tourism products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It
gives participants the opportunity to exchange ideas, build alliances, and
network locally, regionally, and internationally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Exhibitors
will include regional in-bound tour operators, tourist boards, camping and
safari companies, wildlife lodges and hotels, specialised safaris, outdoor
pursuits, local and regional airlines, as well as equipment manufacturers &
services supporting the travel and tourism trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Delegates
enjoy the benefit of exclusive access on the Trade Only Day which will also
include a private, corporate cocktail party on Friday May 29, 2015,” says
Mr Fazal, adding that visitors were welcomed for the remaining two days, which
were open to the general public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
objective of the fair is to raise the regional profile by promoting EA tourism
to the global market and to bring together all key industry players in East
Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Lucida Bright"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It also
aims at creating opportunities for international visitors and overseas tour
agents to meet and network with members of the tourism industry in the region;
bring new destinations, facilities, and products to the attention of overseas
tour agents; and facilitate opportunities for overseas tour agents to visit
national parks and properties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By
ADAM IHUCHA – Better days for chronic diseases patients are in the offing,
thanks to the East African community for devising a homegrown lasting solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As
you this piece, the EAC is finalizing few things to establish medical
facilities special for chronic diseases as the annual regional bill for medical
tourism abroad hit $150 million. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This
money soared from $60 million spent in 2010 to treat hearts, kidney and cancer
patients abroad, also outstripped the EAC’s 2014/2015 fiscal year budget of
$124 million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To
begin with, four centres of excellence in health will be established at the
cost of $72.75 million in the first phase of an ambitious EAC project being financed
by the African Development Bank (AfDB).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Secretary
general for EAC, Dr Richard Sezibera, himself a medical specialist says Kenya
will host one of the centres of excellence in nephrology and urology while the
cardiovascular centre would be hosted in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nephrology
is a medical science that deals with kidneys. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
the context of diseases, it is concerned with diagnosis and treatment of kidney
diseases such as acute kidney failures, which are common nowadays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Urology,
on the other hand, is a branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical
diseases of the male and female urinary track system and the male genital
organs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
organs are under the domain of urology and extend to the kidneys.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cardiovascular
diseases (CVDs) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels,
common among them being heart disease, stroke, hypertension, rheumatic heart
disease, congenital heart disease and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However, experts say that nearly
90 per cent of CVDs are preventable. It is estimated that 13 per cent of CVDs
are associated with high blood pressure, 9 per cent tobacco, six per cent lack
of exercise and five per cent to obesity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rwanda, which has invested
a lot in the science and technology sector in recent years, probably ahead of
other EAC member states, will host the biomedical engineering and eHealth centre
of excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Biomedical engineering is
the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicines and
biology for health care purposes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The field seeks to close
the gap between engineering and medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Uganda is expected to host
the oncology centre of excellence, which will deal with tumours and cancer, a
major health concern in the region in recent times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">No
such centre is planned for Burundi, which hosts the recently established EAC
Health Research Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“The centres of excellence are expected to deliver high
quality and skilled personnel in the specialized fields,” the Uganda Vice
President Edward Ssekandi, said at the just ended fifty <span style="background: white;">annual East African
Health and Scientific Conference held in Kampala, Uganda. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The initiative, he added,
can reduce medical tourism, which, according to him, costs the EAC partner
states a whopping $150 million annually for treatment of non-communicable
diseases mostly in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Indeed, <span style="background: white;">the EAC partner states
rank the highest in medical tourism to India with hundreds of thousand patients
traveling to India to seek medical treatment every year.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">The
Indian medical tourism industry is projected to reach $2 billion with an
estimated 3,200,000 medical value travellers arriving in India this year,
growing at an annual rate of 30 per cent, according to experts.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However, the regional
latest initiative will enhance EAC competitiveness through a highly skilled
health workforce in biomedical sciences and also enable East African citizens
to access quality and specialized services within the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“This is a great news I’ve
ever heard this year from EAC. These medical facilities will save lives of
millions citizens who can’t afford the treatment cost abroad” says Emmy Kimaro
of Arusha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The deputy secretary
general of the EAC Ms Jesca Eriyo said there was strong evidence that
investment in people’s health was a key asset for society and for the economy
as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The deputy SG said the critical
goal of the EAC Health Sector Programme was to establish and sustain stronger
regional health systems including health research institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She disclosed that the EAC
Council of Ministers and the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) had
already appropriated $924,067 in the EAC Budget for the current financial year
to facilitate operationalization of the East African Health Research Commission
in Burundi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ms Eriyo also disclosed
that the Community had developed a scorecard, tools and indicators to track
results and resources through the open health initiative (OHI) and that a
regional data warehouse for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent
health and nutrition had been developed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-63482831723534280442015-04-24T16:31:00.003+03:002015-04-24T16:31:48.306+03:00Kampala to Deploy Customs Officials at Dar Es Salaam Harbour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal;">By ADAM IHUCHA -- Uganda is set to deploy its customs administrators at Dar Es Salaam Harbor as Tanzania goes on</span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"> a fully-fledged Single Customs Territory (SCT) in July 2015.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) says Uganda Revenue Authority’s experts are expected by end of April to<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong>assume the duty of overseeing clearance of cargoes destined to Uganda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">From June 2014, Tanzania has been </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #333333;">piloting the East African Community (EAC)’s SCT regime and all Uganda’s consignments have been administered by TRA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is understood; Rwanda, Burundi and DRC have since deployed their customs officials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Deployment of URA’s personnel is urgent to oversee shipments and ensure that revenues due to Uganda is paid properly” TRA’s Commissioner General Rished Bade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Up to March 2015, significant cargos of the selected products destined to Uganda have been cleared under pilot EAC-SCT at Dar port.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For instance, data from Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) indicates that more than 5.5 million litres of petroleum products conveyed by 213 tankers and 2,070 metric tonnes of cotton seed cake delivered by 10 trucks have been cleared to Uganda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rwanda has received a total of 108.3 million litres of petroleum products conveyed by 3,698 tankers and 14,100 metric tonnes conveyed by 469 trucks through Dar harbor in the period under review.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the case of Burundi 10,928 metric tonnes conveyed by 366 trucks and 5,262 metric tonnes of beer conveyed by 185 trucks have been cleared.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Deputy TRA Commissioner - Trade Facilitation and Procedures, Mr Patrick Mugoya, says that all challenges that emerged during the implementation of the SCT would be sorted out by the end of this month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The challenges for which are being worked out by experts from the East African member states include the complexity of systems interfacing as well as the use of customs bonded warehouse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Others are the slow pace of the cross border government agencies and regulators to adopt SCT systems and fear of job loss by the freight and forwarders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Under the system, the process and documentation are done in the country of destination before the consignments are cleared and released at the port of entry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Trucks often have to stop as much as 20 times, for example, between Dar Port and Kigali, Bujumbura and Kampala.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This raises transport costs by 15 per cent, according to research by the Central Corridor Transport Facilitation Agency, a multilateral Agency established on September 2, 2006, that was created by five governments--Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As a result, currently, Uganda uses the Northern Corridor that runs from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to the Great Lakes region, which costs about $3,200 to transport a single container.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However, once the Central Corridor’s multi-modal trade and transport passage which links Tanzania’s main port of Dar es Salaam with the neighboring landlocked countries is complete; will take the cost of ferrying the same cargo $1,650 thus making it a preferred choice.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415120634465827522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839750907663492528.post-16026358942018247022015-04-14T12:28:00.001+03:002015-04-14T12:28:16.739+03:00Tanzania Coffee Output to Rise by 50pc in 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By ADAM IHUCHA --Coffee production in Tanzania<b> </b>could rise, as much as 52 percent this year compared to the last year’s
outputs, thanks to more rain in regions where the bean is grown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently,
Tanzania Metrological Agency (TMA) reported that <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">sufficient rainfall is expected over the northern part, lake Victoria
basin and the Southern parts of the country for the period of March-May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Indeed, experts say the
ongoing <span style="background: white;">heavy rainfall in all coffee-growing regions</span> is supporting good bean formation and development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">The crop is grown in Kilimanjaro,
Arusha and</span> Mara regions in the north,<span style="background: white;"> Kigoma and Kagera in the west, as well as Mbeya, Iringa and Ruvuma in
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tanzania, <span style="background: white;">the Africa's fourth-largest coffee producer after</span> <span style="background: white;">Ethiopia, Uganda
and Cote I ‘devoir</span>, could see annual
crop outputs rise to 61,000 tons, up from 40,000 tons of 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The state-run-Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB), said that
the expected 61,000 tons harvest is below the 80,000 tons of coffee spelled in
the Tanzanian Coffee Industry Development Strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Adolph
Kumburu, Director General of TCB said that coffee diseases and issues related
to pesticides importation as well as registration are the factors behind the
mess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
Coffee Industry Development Strategy aims to increase Tanzania coffee
production from the present average of 40,000 tons to at least 80,000 tons by
2016 and reach 100,000 tons by 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Increased
production will be reached through improvement of productivity, suppressing
unnecessary intermediaries and diminishing transaction costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In this way
by 2021 farmers should receive at least 75 percent of coffee free on board
(FOB) price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">The envisaged increase shall go
hand in hand with an increase in</span> <span style="background: white;">quality from the current 35 per cent
premium coffee to at least 70 per</span> <span style="background: white;">cent of the total national coffee production.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is estimated that the progressive
replacement of old coffee trees with improved varieties, together with the
application of good agricultural practices (including stumping, pruning,
weeding, mulching, fertilizing) would allow to increase by plus 100 percent the
average yields from the current level of 225 kgs of clean coffee per hectare to
the figure of 450 kgs in 2021.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="background: white;">Tanzania mainly produces Arabica and
Robusta coffee. Prices of the</span> <span style="background: white;">country’s
Arabica normally attract the New York market while those of</span> <span style="background: white;">Robusta take their route to London.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">The country boasts of having 4.8 million
hectares of land suitable for</span> <span style="background: white;">coffee farming
of which only 200,000 ha, nearly 35 per cent is</span> <span style="background: white;">utilized.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">The industry players say Tanzania has not fully utilized
its huge</span> <span style="background: white;">market potential compared to
other countries producing the coveted</span> <span style="background: white;">Colombian
mild Arabica coffee and the Bukoba’s Robusta. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="background: white;">Over 95 per cent of
Tanzania's coffee is exported. The country’s</span> <span style="background: white;">standards are not only high, but also the intricate
system of international</span> <span style="background: white;">market policies
and commodity prices are also dictated.<o:p></o:p></span><br />The industry provides direct income to
more than 400,000 farmer households thus supporting the livelihoods of an
estimated 2.4 million individuals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A total of 10,000 hectares expected to
be planted by both small holders and large-scale investors by 2021, which means
at least 1,000 hectares per year from 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This replanting, intensifying, and
expansion strategy would go hand in gloves with Tanzania Coffee Research
Institute (TaCRI ) seedlings multiplication program whereby, about 20 million
seedlings would be availed annually on this period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However, Mr
Kumburu also cited smuggling of coffee could be one of the stumbling blocs to
realize the national coffee export target.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">One-third of annual Kagera's
10,000 metric tonnes of coffee, the black</span> <span style="background: white;">gold -- is being drained away by smuggling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Intelligence sources say the
smugglers are known to be well-off</span> <span style="background: white;">people with a large cross-border syndicate operating
between Tanzania and</span> <span style="background: white;">Uganda.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">The crop illegally</span> <span style="background: white;">exported to Uganda,
where the country repackages and re-exports the</span> <span style="background: white;">produce.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Robusta and natural Arabica
coffees grown in Kagera region,</span> <span style="background: white;">account for 25 percent of some 40,000 metric tonnes of
Tanzania's</span> <span style="background: white;">annual coffee output.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Despite vast opportunities,
including large tracts of volcanic soils</span> <span style="background: white;">suitable for high quality</span> <span style="background: white;">coffee farming, Tanzania’s production
of coffee stagnated at 40,000</span> <span style="background: white;">metric
tonnes a year over the last three decades, generating export earnings averaging
$100 million per annum.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Bukoba is now</span> <span style="background: white;">considered one of
the world's top qualities Robusta, they added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By ADAM IHUCHA -- Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA)
is bracing for a major facelift in a few months time, as the multi-million-dollars
overhaul project gets underway in early June 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mid-March,
Tanzania picked<span style="background: white;">, BAM International contracting firm of Netherlands, to
execute this largest overhaul ever, in its efforts to elevate KIA into a
fully-fledged tourist’s</span>
<span style="background: white;">gateway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Financed by Tanzania
and the Dutch governments at $39.7 million, the makeover project, will see all
runways, apron,</span>
<span style="background: white;">taxiways and passenger lounge modernized in a
bid to offer</span> <span style="background: white;">holidaymakers a hassle-free
trip to the country’s northern tourist’s</span> <span style="background: white;">circuit.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Kilimanjaro
Airports Development Company (KADCO) Managing Director, Mr Bakari Murusuri, says
that the real works will commence in early June 2015 and it will be completed
in July 2016, if all goes well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">“Idea behind the
scheme is</span> <span style="background: white;">to give KIA a different outlook” Mr Murusuri
noted, adding that KADCO</span> <span style="background: white;">since 2010 had
been running the promotion blitz to the market</span> <span style="background: white;">overseas, seeking to attract major global airlines to operate
from</span> <span style="background: white;">KIA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">With increased
traffic, demands for customer satisfaction,</span> <span style="background: white;">security concerns and
growing competition, KIA has found it</span> <span style="background: white;">imperative
to benchmark itself with pace setting organizations,</span> <span style="background: white;">meeting and overcoming emerging challenges along the
way.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The 44-year-old
airport, which <span style="background: white;">situated between Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions, </span>has
over the years undergone a series of touch-ups and renovations, but now is set
to achieve world-class status with the makeover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">KADCO Director of Operations and Technical
Services, Mr Christopher Mukoma, said that the airport’s modernization includes
the expansion of the terminal buildings, increasing the length and width of
taxiways and runaways, expanding aircraft aprons as well as establishing other
essential services at the terminal.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Mkoma further divulged that<span style="background: white;">,
BAM will also install new airfield ground lighting and floodlights along the
aprons, resurface the runaways, and create continuous loop linking runways and
taxiways to eliminate delays in landing and take-off.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Boasting an annual increase of 25 per cent in
passenger traffic, KIA and this year, the management expects to handle nearly
1.2 million flying customers. Inaugurated for business in 1972, KIA was designed
to handle just 200,000 passengers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Natural Resources and
Tourism Minister, Lazaro Nyalandu said KIA revamping was imperative and
come at the opportune moment as the country want to elevate the airfield as
truly gateway to</span>
<span style="background: white;">Mount Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater and the
Serengeti National parks,</span> <span style="background: white;">the world
famous destinations visited by hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists</span>
<span style="background: white;">from all over the world.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Tanzania Association
of Tour Operators (TATO) Executive Officer, Sirili Akko welcomed the face-lift
but said the KADCO should also develop other tourism-related infrastructure and
recreation facilities to lure overseas tourists.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Already KADCO has developed
a comprehensive plan that would see the 110 sq km estates surrounding the
Tanzania's second largest airport, transformed into a state-of-the art, modern
duty free shopping city.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Apart from the air
terminal, the KIA area, strategically placed at the meeting point of
three Northern Zone regions of Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Manyara, has for many
years remained a wide stretch of unoccupied land as far as the eye can see, but
this was bound to soon change. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">All roads and international
air routes would have in the future, be leading to KIA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">According to the master
plan, the location was to become a 'city' at the center of Moshi and Arusha,
where prospective investors were to establish, massive shopping centers, high
class tourist hotels, Duty free ports, Export Processing Zone, Educational
Institutions, custom bonded warehouses, curio shops, golf courses and a large
game ranch.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By ADAM
IHUCHA -- Tanzania’s sole horticultural ground handling firm envisages
expanding its wings to the country’s three strategic gateways in its quest to
cater for a growing demand for logistics service.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">TahaFresh
Handling Ltd – which handles ground handling services for horticultural exports
and imports alone—plans to extend its operations to Dar es Salaam and Tanga
ports as well as to Holili border post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Currently,
the company operates at Kilimanjaro, Dar es Salaam’s Julius Nyerere and at
Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta international airports. It is extending its wings for the
first time since its inception way back in 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">General
manager Bob Kisamo says the by expanding, the company will serve its customers
— who prefer using the three gateways for both exports and imports — better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“There’s a
growing demand for reliable logistics service in these three major entry points
and TahaFresh handling Ltd is positioning itself to seize the opportunity,” Mr
Kisamo explains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">TahaFresh
also offers other services ranging from airfreight forwarding to refrigerated
trucking and clearing and forwarding for all horticultural exports and imports
in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Plans are
underway to introduce Sea Freight forwarding for horticultural exports through
the new operations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2014, the
firm handled 2,500 tonnes of horticulture transported via sea, air and by
trucks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Africado
company director, Mr James Parsons says that Taha Fresh helps his firm to
successfully handle a complex logistical chain for exporting fresh fruits
mainly avocado directly to Europe by sea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tanzania
Horticultural Association chief executive officer, Mr Jacqueline Mkindi, is
proud of Taha Fresh Handling Ltd, because it plays pivotal role in absorbing
costly and time-consuming cross-border non-tariff barriers to ease the burdens
that investors face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">TahaFresh continues
to operate, as a professional logistics operation taking its inspiration from
horticulture, but operating as professional logicians linked to, and affiliated
with the best international standard setters such as the International Air
Transport Association (Iata) and the International Federation of Freight
Forwarders Associations (Fiata).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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