Tanzania Goes Nuts For Bringing Aid to Cashew Farmers

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The government has launched an exercise to supply free agricultural inputs to cashew farmers across the country. The initiative comes after President Samia Suluhu Hassan endorsed just over U.S.$26 million to purchase cashew inputs, as incentives to farmers in cashew producing regions to improve production of the crop.

Mtwara Regional Commissioner Marco Gaguti says a total of 25,000 tonnes of sulphur and 1.5 million litres of liquid inputs have been purchased and the farm inputs would be supplied for free to cashew nuts farmers in the country as per the president's directive.

Tanzania is one of the largest cashew nut producers in Africa, with exports providing up to 15% of the country's foreign exchange.

Agriculture Minister Japhet Hasunga has said that the amount will be reached after buyers pay required charges in the business chain for the 2019/20 trading season, thanks to president John Magufuli's industrialization drive which is attracting investors to set up cashew-processing firms in the country.

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