Friday 27 May, 2011

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SUPPORTING THE PROMOTERS OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION

MILK WEEK

By Makuna Chirimi

There are no post harvestmilk losses in the country,the Registrar of theTanzania Dairy Board,Charles Mutagabwa hassaid.

Contrary to widely circulated infor-mation and survey reports which indi-cate that close to 40% of all milk har-vested in Tanzania goes to waste, theregistrar has dismissed this as amatterof perception.

“Show me a farmer who has failedto sell his milk and I will show themwhere to sell it. All the local processorsare searching for milk and are unableto get enough. If there was excess milkbeing produced it would quickly bebought up,” the registrar said.

Elaborating further, Mutagwabasaid that to begin with, not all the cowsin the country are milked. This is be-cause the commercial demand for milkis still low, even as processors struggleto open up new milk collection centresin the rural areas. The board antici-

pates that the opening up of new collec-tion points will encourage farmers toincrease production and also to startmilking more cows.

“One can either decide to view asituation where farmer doesn’t milk allhis cows and lets the calves drink themilk as a loss, or an alternative way inwhich the farmer invests in his cows.It’s all a matter of perception,” he not-ed.

Confirming however that local milkproducers and processors have a toughtime coping with the proliferation offoreign milk imports, the registrar saidthat price still offered a competitiveedge to local products. He said that lo-cal products are currently priced lowerthan imports, giving them amarket ad-vantage. ““The fact that milk is im-ported from over 20 different countriesindicates that there is a large untappedlocal market. That together with thefact that our local manufacturers arestill able to produce and sell locallyshows that there is huge unexploitedpotential market for milk in Tanzania.If we work hard we will all be competi-

tive.”The registrar clarified that the

largest challenge for the local industryis posed, not by the imported liquidmilk but by imported powdered milk.He revealed that the country importsbetween US$ 5 million and 7 millionworth of milk and milk products everyyear. “We do not produce powderedmilk locally and yet most of the milkconsumed both locally and on the inter-national market is powdered milk.” Hehowever said that for logistical and oth-er unstated reasons, it was not easy forthe government to simply announce astop to the powdered milk imports.

“We work closely with the localmilk processors. The dairy board actsas a bridge between government andthe milk industry. For example thegovernment has exempted taxes onmilk collection and processing equip-ment and this is partly thanks to policyproposals that the dairy board deliv-ered to the government on behalf of themilk industry.”

However the registrar admittedthatmore needs to be done especially in

encouraging the government to zerorate milk and milk products. Zero rat-ing will enable milk producers andprocessors to recoup taxes on key in-puts like electricity and equipment. Atthe moment, the milk industry inneighbouring states like Kenya enjoyszero rating on milk, a move that makestheir products highly competitive in theregional markets, including Tanzania.

“We are still pressing for zero rat-ing and hope that this considerationwill be made in the coming budget(2011/2012),” he added.

Commenting on the effects of thegovernment’s new found resolve and itsstated commitment to agriculturethrough Kilimo Kwanza, the registrarnoted that, “It is still too early to gaugethe effects and success of KilimoKwanza in the livestock industry espe-cially since it’s only been one year in in-ception. However there are some posi-tive indicators for example whereas inthe past there was only facility offeringseed storage facilities for artificial in-semination, new centres have been setup in Mwanza, Dodoma, Kibaha and

Uyole in Mbeya. Another facility is cur-rently under construction in Lindi.These centres are all provided with liq-uid nitrogen which is important in thestorage of semen stocks. We hope thatthis will boost milk production as mostof the available stocks are for dairy cat-tle,” he added. At the moment, of theover 22 million head of cattle in thecountry; the third largest herd in thecontinent, less than 700,000 are mod-ern commercial breeds. At best, localcattle breeds produce an average of twoto three litres of milk a day, which isjust a fifth of what the modern com-mercial dairy breeds are capable of pro-ducing.

Commenting on recently publishedclaims that farmers across the countryare losing out on revenue after the gov-ernment froze raw milk exports out ofthe country, the registrar dismissedthese claims as rumours that were like-ly being perpetrated by people with ahidden stake in the process. He saidthat following the government ban inOctober of 2008, the board conducted anationwide survey that establishedthat milk was still being produced andbought at the same rate and at thesame price as it was before the ban.

A previously government ownedand now privatized Arusha based milkprocessing plant was in the middle of aprotracted row in which a milk compa-ny of Kenyan origin that had initiallyentered into a joint venture to developthe firm was later accused of using thepremises simply as a milk collectioncentre. This amounted to a conflict ofinterest with the investors in which theinitial 2-year license was extended toDecember of 2009 before finally beingrevoked. The raw milk export ban wasthen put in place after an industry au-dit revealed that the investor firm wasimporting into the country on a tax-freebasis, more milk that it was transport-ing out of the country for processing.

However the rawmilk exports havedried up now that the East AfricaCommunity (EAC) customs union al-lows for tax free and unhindered crossborder trading in milk and milk prod-ucts among member states. The regis-trar said that with the implementationof the EAC customs union protocols,the firm in question has pulled out ofthe controversial deal and acquired aseparate warehouse from where it nowconducts its activities.

Recently the Ministry of Trade andIndustry announced that it is under-taking an audit of privatized firms todetermine which of these have beenabandoned or are being used contraryto tender agreements, this with a viewof the possible government re-posses-sion of such institutions. Within themilk industry, such undeveloped firmsinclude the now dormant Ubungo“Maziwa” plant in Dar es Salaam. “Wedon’t know what it is being used for,”the dairy board’s registrar revealed.

EDITORIALThe Guardian KILIMO KWANZA Friday 27 May, 2011

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The Guardian KILIMO KWANZACOVER STORY - MILK WEEK

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Tanzania marks the annual National MilkWeek and the World Milk day at a timewhen there is an influx of imported milk inthe country. According to the NationalSample Census on Livestock, there is an av-erage of one cow for every two Tanzanians.

However milk consumption remains low, at only 43 litresper person or a fifth of what experts say should be theideal average.

It is also sadly ironical that a country that boasts thethird largest cattle herd in the continent also importsmilk and milk products from over 20 different countriesof the globe, including reconstituted milk imported fromsome desert Middle Eastern nations.

Over US $ 5mworth of milk andmilk products is im-ported into the country every year. Admittedly, pow-deredmilk forms the biggest portion of the globalmilk in-dustry and as such poses the biggest threat to the localmilk industry. Whilst there is no law prohibiting the saleof reconstituted milk (powdered milk that has beenmixed with water) as long as the agreed procedures forreconstitution and quality are met, perhaps it is time forthe authorities to start putting in place stricter controlson milk imports. Similar regulation exists with the im-portation and exportation of other agro-produce such assugar, grain products like flour and even tea and coffee.Why not milk?

According to a draft report by milk processors on im-proving competitiveness of the dairy industry, lack of en-forcement of regulations and the proliferation of informalmilk operations are major causes behind the sluggish-ness of the local milk industry. The report says that ex-perience in other countries has shown that regulatory in-terventions alone cannot eliminate the sale of un-processed milk.

“It appears that this has to go hand in hand withrisks involved in the consumption of raw milk,” the draftreport says, adding that the price of processed milk hasto come down significantly tomake it affordable to low in-come consumers, who are otherwise unwilling to pay forthe costs of pasteurization and packaging.

The report indicates that the country’s dairy process-ing industry has shrunk by more than 80 per cent overthe last 15 years, adding that it has become uncompeti-tive on the domesticmarket (narrow and expensive rangeof products) and is not export oriented. At least, thirteendairy plants have gone out of business and the totalamount of milk processed per day is only 60,000 litres

(down from 400,000 litres).Recently the government announced that it was in

the process of preparing the Livestock SectorDevelopment Program (LSDP) which it is hoped willamong other things, encourage the growth of the milksector. Once complete, the LSDP will join a host of al-ready existing regulation on the livestock industry, in-cluding the Animal and Diseases Act, Veterinary Act,Animal Welfare Act and the Dairy Act all of which are inone way or the other geared towards increasing the con-tribution of the livestock industry to the economy, whichcurrently stands at a mere 4% of GDP. However they saythat the road to hell is paved with good intentions.Without proper enforcement all these well meaning reg-ulations will remain just that - nothing but good inten-tions.

It has been said that livestock keeping has a higherpotential of eliminating poverty than crop farming. A cowthat gives an average 5 litres of milk per day for examplecould provide a farmer’s family with income that is equiv-alent to TSH 2,000 per day (equivalent to US$ 1.25) if thefarmer were to sell 4 litres of the milk. This incomewould also be available all year round unlike crop earn-ings that are seasonal. The cow also produces manurethat could either be sold or used on the farmer’s crop farmto boost productivity. Furthermore a farmer’s family ben-efits from good health as a result of drinking the remain-ing 1 litre of high protein milk from the cow.

Tanzania’s population is heavily dependent on agri-culture with over 80% of the population directly depend-ent on farming as the source for their livelihood.Development of the local livestock and dairy industrytherefore has important linkages to the achievement ofthe Millenium Development Goals (MDG’s) of eliminat-ing poverty because over 40% of all crop farmers inTanzania also keep livestock.

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The Guardian KILIMO KWANZAMILK WEEK

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By Kilimo Kwanza Reporter

Milk consumption in the countryremains relatively low despiteTanzania ranking third interms of livestock population inAfrica.

This is why the Tanzania Dairy Board in col-laboration with The Ministry of LivestockDevelopment and Fisheries and other stakehold-ers in the industry decided to promote a milkdrinking culture among Tanzanians by introduc-ing the Milk Week, an annual event aimed at in-creasing consumption of milk and milk products.

The annual national event is celebrated in thefinal week ofMay. This year, theMilkWeek startstomorrow and last till Tuesday of next week. Theoccasion will be marked in Dare s Salaam whichis also the major milk market in the country.

Every year, the Milk week features a themethat aims at sending a special message toTanzanians on the importance of drinking milk.This year’s theme is ‘Drink Milk for Your Health,Build the Country’s Economy.’

The objectives of the Milk Week this year is toraise awareness among Tanzanians on the advan-tages of drinking milk as a healthy food for allages as well as promote the benefits of milk tohealth. Milk contains all the nutrients required ina balanced diet.

Milk contains a lot of proteins key for growthand vitamins A, B and D all of which are essentialfor a stronger body and strong bones, smooth skinas well as preventing blindness.

Milk is also rich in minerals such as calciumand phosphorus which are important for buildingstronger bones and teeth. Milk also contains lac-tose which provides the body with energy andheat. Furthermore milk also contains fats thatprovide the body with energy and heat and waterwhich helps the body in the digestion of nutrients.

The Milk Week also aims at sensitizing policymakers on the importance of the dairy sub-sectorin the country’s economic development and pover-ty alleviation.

A dairy farmer with a single cow has in hispossession an asset that is worth more than TSH500,000/-, which is equivalent to the cost of a sin-gle dairy cow. Dairy farming therefore can help inalleviating income poverty through daily milksales which can fetch as much as TSH 1m/- everyyear since one dairy cow can produce up to tenlitres of milk a day, which is enough both for sell-ing and for home consumption. Furthermore, adairy farmer does not need a herd of cattle to berich. Only a few cows can do and the rest, result-ing from reproduction of the cows can be sold forextra cash.

A dairy farmer can also use the manure from

the cows for farming purposes and sell the result-ing farm produce for an income. Dairy farmingalso creates employment opportunities and this isevident in the fact that in for 100 litres ofmilk pro-duced, four permanent employment positions arecreated.

The Milk Week also serves as a platform toencourage players in the sector to improve thequality of their products as well as giving them anopportunity to meet, learn and exchange ideasand experiences.

Other activities to take place during thisyear’s Milk Week include the annual generalmeetings for associations such as the TanzaniaMilk Producers Association (TAMPRODA) andthe Tanzania Milk Processors Association (TAM-PA) which are scheduled to hold their generalmeetings tomorrow.

This year’s official opening of the Milk Weekandmilk products exhibition will take place at theBiafra grounds in Kinondoni on Sunday, May 29.

The Annual Milk Stakeholders Council isscheduled to take place on May 30 to be followedby the climax on the World Milk day which is onMay 31. The celebrations will include a milkawareness procession by students and other milkstakeholders. Dr David Mathayo, the Minister for

Livestock Development and Fisheries will be theguest of honour.

The Milk Week was launched by the WorldFood Programme (FAO) which selected the monthof May for the promotion of milk consumptionworldwide given its importance to health.

In Tanzania, the initiative to promote milkconsumption was introduced by the Coastal DairyFarmers Association (CODAFA) in June 1997 af-ter the East and Central Africa zone meetingwhich was sponsored by the Land O’ Lakes or-ganization. The move followed the market chal-lenges that were facing milk producers andprocessors at the time.

The Milk week celebrations took off in 1998and have since become an annual event celebrat-ed between end of May and early June.

In 2002, the national celebrations took placein Arusha, in Iringa in 2003, Mwanza in 2004,Tanga in 2005 and in Morogoro in 2006. Mbeyahosted the event in 2007, Sumbawanga in 2008and Dodoma in 2009. Last year, the Milk Weekwas celebrated in Lindi.

The Tanzania Dairy Board (TDB) was formedunder section 262 of the Dairy Act of 2004. Theroles of the dairy board include regulation and de-velopment of the milk sector.

The dairy board encourages production, col-lection and processing of milk in a bid to improvethe market consumption of milk and its productsby supporting the activities of milk stakeholdersin the country.

By Makuna Chirimi

Tanzanians have beenurged to drink more milkboth for their own goodhealth and as a way ofsupporting the country’seconomy.

“We havemade some progress fromthe 21 litres per person that was regis-tered when we started this drive in1998. However we are stuck on 20%and obviously still have a long way togo,” the Registrar of the TanzaniaDairy Board, Charles Mutagwaba ad-mits. One of the ways to address this isthrough the Milk Week, with the high-light this year being the Milk and MilkProducts Exhibition slotted for the 28th

– 31st of May at the Biafra Grounds inKinondoni District of Dar es Salaam.Organized by the Tanzania DairyBoard in collaboration with theMinistry of Livestock Development andFisheries, this year’s exhibition willfeature milk products and services bylocal processors, product tasting andtesting as well as showcasing innova-tive ways to use milk.

The theme for this year’s NationalMilk Week event is, “Kunywa maziwakwa afya yako. Jenga uchumi wa nchiyako.” (Drink milk for good health.Build Tanzania’s economy.)

The registrar revealed that thisyear’s event will be preceded bySeventh African Dairy Conferenc e andExhibition that will be held from the

25th – 27th of May at the MoevenpickRoyal Palm Hotel, in Dar es Salaam.The event is expected to attract over300 international guests.

“We will benefit from expertise,new ideas, technology, linkages andperhaps even new business opportuni-ties will arise from the conference,”Mutagwaba said. Boasting the thirdlargest cattle herd in the continent,Tanzanians still drink very little milk.The current annual milk consumptionper capita is estimated at only 43 litres,when the ideal annual average shouldbe above 200 litres per person.

‘Most people only drink milk withtea or coffee, but exhibitors will showdifferent uses of milk including how touse milk at home to cook sauces and

other foods,” the registrar said. The ex-hibition will also encourageTanzanians to purchase and consumelocal products as a way of supportingthe local milk industry.

Other planned activities include anawareness march by milk sector stake-holders that will be accompanied bygiving milk donations to identified so-cial welfare organization. Also slotted isa milk and milk products quality com-petition, a dairy livestock exhibitionand exhibitions by organizations pro-viding livestock and industry supportand extension services.

The annual general conferences forthe Tanzania Milk Processors andAssociation (TAMPRODA) and theTanzania Milk Processors Association

(TAMPA) will both be held on the 28thof this month to be followed by AnnualCouncil of milk stakeholders on the30th of May. Calling for a change in at-titude towards locally processed milkand milk products, the registrar saidthat locally producedmilkmeets all thenecessary quality standards.

Observed in Tanzania since 1998,the National Milk Week aims to en-courage the drinking of milk and to in-crease usage of milk products. The oc-casion is observed as a precursor to theWorld Milk Day that is celebrated onJune 1st each year. Dar es Salaamwasselected as the venue for this year’sNational Milk Week because it consti-tutes the largest milk market in thecountry.

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POLICYThe Guardian KILIMO KWANZA Friday 27 May, 2011

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By Nimi Mweta

Anyone researching on hy-brids suitable for farm-ing in Tanzania or any-where else can no longerjust limit the research todrought resistance or

early maturation and pest resistancealone. All product development is in-tended to enhance market share, andhere taste is unavoidable when onetalks about staples like rice. In otherwords a staple without the right tasteattached to it is as good as useless.Short of giving it somewhere as a do-nation, it remains on the shop shelves.

The marketing aspect of the differ-ent varieties of seed or more specifical-ly of crops, and in particular rice, con-stitute a natural or social arbiter onthe sort of policy that is feasible; sinceKilimo Kwanza is first about food se-curity and not agribusiness. The twoaspects often tend to be confused. Forinstance when technological aspectsare put up first privileging drought re-sistant crops; but when the taste as-pect has been removed, that couldprove fatal for the crop’s use.

The significance of this is juststarting to be noticed. Pursuing thefood security strategy has to be con-fined to varieties of crops which do notdisturb the social aspects of eating.This has to do with happiness in whatis being taken, not merely in a listingof vitamins, proteins, etc. Some of thenew varieties of crops fail the socialmarketing test.

While there is scant research onthe taste of newer crop varieties ascompared to old ones, users provide abountiful first hand information. Onthat account, a few murky details onwhat is expected in the KilimoKwanzadrive are being cleared out. Instead ofthis being a policy clarification that de-pends on advice from professional agri-culturalists in the various universities,the information is now coming mainlyfrom mothers of families. They sayeven the children reject certain vari-eties of rice that are cheap and avail-able, but distinct from traditionaltypes.

Examining data sources of the newvarieties of rice which even childrenfind tasteless and aren’t interested inbecomes difficult though, as all special-ized material available, say, on the in-ternet freely mixes up issues. What isneeded is a classification of types ofrice on the basis of taste and how thesedifferent types fare in themarketplace.But it is hard to find something ashard as that, and instead one sees wisereminders to researchers that theyshould take taste into account. Butwhat if there are benefits associatedwith letting the taste take care of it-self?

What is surprising is that these“tasteless” rice varieties are now foundin shops, as they are cheaper than thehitherto cheapest types whose grainsaren’t whole but broken. However inspite of the fact that the changed tastevariety fetches lower prices, it is a slowmoving item on the shelves. The priceadvantage fails the user value test,since a product is first important orhas a value when it can be used. Pricecomes up as the amount one is pre-pared to part with in order to take holdof that user value, without which theobject is simply irrelevant. That iswhere the issue of differential usecomes up.

Thus for purposes of domestic con-sumption, not as a country but at thehomestead, this sort of variety that ischeap enough but rejected even by chil-dren cannot be said to be feasible forcommercial production. If it is presentin shops it is there as a sort of an ex-cess but it will unavoidably be a slowmoving commodity because it doesn’tmeet usual standards of edible rice in asocial setting of the matter. There is no

question that this weakness is fatal tothe marketability of that variety of ricefor human consumption; it is thereforecattle feed or fuel.

What this therefore suggests isthat a neat distinction seems to be ap-pearing on the horizon between KilimoKwanza as food security and asagribusiness. In the former it is chieflyconcerned with water supply and ob-taining two or three crop seasonswhere possible. But the seed types re-main traditional or hybrids based onadding some tropical alternativeswithout altering what makes the seedsmarketable, namely the taste of theseeds. It means there should be lesspursuit of technological solutions tofood security questions, as it may oftenappear.

With the pursuit of biofuels, theconcerns are altogether different as inthat case all what matters is the rele-vant part of the plant that is being pur-sued, the starch. Here technological as-pects are paramount, for instance themost drought resistant variety be-comes the best, for instance in animal

feed, though some experts caution thatanimals also have a language of whatsort of food they may accept or takewith relish. Levels of affinity with thefeed affect lactation, fattening, etc.

That is why a suggestion was be-ing given in recent months that techni-cal reorientation or uplift needs to beconducted at theministries responsiblefor agriculture, livestock and invest-ment, so that these issues becomeclearer at the policy and resource allo-cation level.

Kilimo Kwanza in relation to foodsecurity may thus remain within theMinistry of Agriculture and FoodSecurity, while agribusiness and biofu-els are re-categorized in the TanzaniaInvestment Centre, with relevant min-isterial references. Morally and strate-gically the two would have distinct andseparate functions.

The first sphere is responsibility ofthe government, the second is invest-ment attraction, incentives whichdoesn’t touch on direct concerns of pub-lic welfare, save in relation to creatingagro-based jobs. The proper focus of

food policy would be removed entirelyfrom the sorts of seed varieties thatcome up strongly in bio-fuels and ani-mal feeds, without pursuing current il-lusions that food security becomes abyproduct of a ‘wider’ pursuit. Bio-fuelsare after all more marketable or prof-itable than food.

It is also evident that since food se-curity means the constant supply of so-cially acceptable types of grain, it mer-its a whole series of considerations asto irrigation or targeted price subsidiesand inputs.

The bio-fuels variety of cropswould therefore constitute a differentsort of activity that is relevant to poli-cy, not as social security but for cre-ation of jobs or widening the tax base.This has significant fallouts for wel-fare, without being synonymous withit. It may assist in ensuring that what-ever crops are farmed for food arepalatable, and not replaced by indus-trial varieties that don’t meet socialmarketing tests. This is vital and mayeven be an act of human justice andequality.

By Makuna Chirimi

There is low awareness ofthe Tanzania DairyIndustry Act 2004, theTanzania Dairy BoardRegistrar, CharlesMutagwaba admits .

Assented by the former PresidentBenjamin Mkapa on the 4th of June,2004, the Act repealed the DairyIndustry Act of 1965 and provides forthe production, regulation and promo-tion of the dairy industry and estab-lishment of the Tanzania DairyIndustry Board.

The act applies to all milk andmilkproducts but does not apply to milk ormilk products not intended for sale andthose produced for consumption of theproducer, members of his family, hisemployees or animals kept by thefarmer.

The Dairy Industry Act allows theMinister for Livestock Developmentand Fisheries to, upon the advice of theboard, make regulations that prescribe

standards for the dairy industry. Suchstandards include those for construc-tion, lighting, ventilation, cleanliness,water supply of dairies and the equip-ment used in the production and man-ufacture of milk and milk products.They also encompass the duties of in-spectors, graders, sampling officersand analysts and the examination andanalysis of milk.

In addition, the regulations pre-scribe theminimum standards formilkand milk products and prohibit the

sale of milk that does not conform tothese minimum standards.Interestingly among the regulations ofthe act, is one that prohibits the directretail to consumers of raw unprocessedmilk, something that is still over-whelmingly common across the coun-try. Another regulation also prohibitsthe diluting of fresh milk with water, apractice that is however still popularamong raw milk vendors across thecountry. Admittedly most law en-forcers and health inspectors are either

unaware of or not keen to implementthe statutes of this act. “The problemswe face now could be drastically re-duced if they took it as part of their re-sponsibility to inspect milk productionand distribution as they do with otherlivestock products such as meat,” thedairy board’s registrar said.

The regulations also prescribe themethods of processing and manufac-turing milk products which includelimitations on the use of preservatives,colouring or any other substances

added to milk; and the methods forgradingmilk andmilk products and is-suance of grading certificates for pro-ducers and manufacturers. The treat-ment and disposal of any wastes andeffluents arising from the productionor processing of milk is also providedfor in the act.

Additional regulations provide formethods of packaging milk products,provide for the distribution of milk andmilk products which includes thecleanliness of the vehicles and vesselsused for transporting milk and author-ize persons authorized by the board toundertake spot checks and detain ve-hicles carryingmilk andmilk products.

The act requires that all personsdealing with milk and milk productsregister with the dairy board and atwhich point the board can registersuch a person to conduct activities as amilk producer, processor, marketingagent, importer, exporter, retailer ordairy inputs supplier.

The register is required to amongother things, maintain a register ofmilk producers, processors, importersand exporters, marketing agents, dairyinputs suppliers, manufacturers andretailers and issue a certificate of reg-istration to any person who deals withmilk andmilk products. Certificates is-sued under this act are non-transfer-able and valid for a period of one year.

The board also reserves the rightto refuse to register an applicant ifhe/she fails to meet the prescribed con-ditions or may revoke and suspend theregistration certificates. Such revoca-tion or suspension may come in addi-tion to other penalties under which theregistered person is liable to under theact. However the act also allows for ag-grieved parties to lodge their appealswith the minister for livestock andfisheries who may either dismiss theappeal or order the board to re-issuethe certificate of registration, quashthe revocation or suspension for anyrevocation or order the person to makea fresh application for the registrationor license.

Needless to say that in this envi-ronment where most of the 22 millionhead of cattle is kept in informal set-tings by nomadic pastoralists, it is al-most impossible to register all milkproducers. This calls for close collabo-ration between the dairy board andmilk processors to supply them withaccurate information on farmers fromwhom they collect milk.

Finally the act provides for the es-tablishment of the Dairy IndustryDevelopment Fund into which all mon-ey’s received by the dairy board shallbe paid and out of which all paymentsrequired shall be made.

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By Kilimo Kwanza Reporter

As the rising food pricescontinue to bite in theEast African region, theEuropean Union delega-tion has reaffirmed itsreadiness to continue as-

sisting Tanzania enhance the food se-curity of its people.

Speaking to The Guardian KilimoKwanza last week, the Head ofDelegation in the country AmbassadorTim Clarke said that beyond the over-all Euro555million support earmarkedfor the country programme 2008-2013, the EU continues to provide separatefunding both to government and nonState actors’ projects for promoting foodsecurity.

The EU 70 million Euros aid forAgriculture in Tanzania covers Tradeand Agriculture Support Programmes(Euro 25m), the sugar sector (Euro

13m), Food Facility grants (Euro 12m) and Food Facility top up to GeneralBudget Support (Euro 20m).

Government collected the lion’sshare of the extra Euro32million pro-vided for increasing food security, bag-ging Euro20 million of it that went intothe treasury, on the understandingthat it is used as rapid response formit-igating rising food prices through pro-vision of agricultural inputs, rehabilita-tion of seed farms, promotion of agri-cultural mechanization, rural agro-pro-cessing and household food storage.

The Euro12 million scooped by theprivate sector and NGO operators wentbroadly to 8 recipient groups, with twoand a half million Euros going toMbeya and Rukwa regions throughFarmers Groups Networks of Tanzania(MWIWATA) for the development offood crops wholesale market premisesand building the local market stake-holders’ capabilities to use the refur-

bished structures efficiently.Over a million Euro has been given

to Babati district through Food andAgriculture Marketing ResearchManagement (FarmAfrica) where 46farmers groups are to benefit from animproved marketing model for sesame.

Another one million Euros was giv-en to the French CIDR ("CentreInternational de Developpement et deRecherche") with his partner PrideTanzania for improving microfinanceservices provision in Iringa, Morogoro,Arusha, Manyara, Tanga andSingida.

The Tanzania AgriculturalPartnership with the AgriculturalCouncil of Tanzania bagged over oneand a half million Euro to enhance foodprice stability in 13 districts of SongeaNamutumbo, Mbarali, Mbeya, Kyela,Mbozi, Iringa Mufindi, Njombe,Kilombero Morogoro, Meru andMonduli. The organisations were ex-

pected to particulary develop theWarehouse Receipt System for thosedistricts.

The giant British charity Oxfam,was given a million Euros to improveirrigation and market access infra-structure in Shinyanga, while OikosEast Africa got one and a half millionEuros for boosting household food secu-rity, nutrition and cash crop productiv-ity in selected Maasai areas of Merudistrict.

The Misindo training centre forsustainable agriculture and animalhusbandry got a shot in the arm fromthe Euro 1.125m given to Cefa Onlus tocombat food insecurity and improveprovision of agricultural services inKilolo and Namtumbo districts.

Two million Euros was picked byConcern Worldwide which has for longbeen at work in rural Tanzania for mit-igating the negative impacts of volatilefood prices in poor households.

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Water and Environmental Sanitation ProjectsMaintenance Organization (WEPMO)Tel: +255 22 2410738, 716 099959

Ministry of WaterTel: +255 22 245 1448

INDUSTRY SUPPORT ANDASSOCIATIONS

Small Industries Development Organization(SIDO) – Email: dg@sido.go.tz, info@sido.go.tz

ANSAF - P.O. Box 6370, Dar es Salaam

CNFA - info@cnfatanzania.org

Tractors LimitedCells: +255 784 421606, 786 150213

Consolidated Holdings Corporation (CHC)Tel: 255 (022) 2117988/9

Vocational Education and Training Authority(VETA) – Tel: +255 22 2863683/2863409

Export Processing Zones in Tanzania (EPZ)Tel: +255 22 2451827-9

Agricultural Economics Society of Tanzania(AGREST) – Tel. +255-23 260 3415

Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC)Tel: +255 22 2122984-6

Tanzania Agriculture Partnership (TAP)Tel: +255 22 2124851

Tanzania Milk Processors Association (TAMPA)Tel: +255 222 450 426

Rural Livelihood Development Company (RLDC)Tel: +255 26 2321455

Tanzania Cotton BoardTel: +255 22 2122564, 2128347

Horticultural DevelopmentCouncil of Tanzania (HODECT)Cell: +255 789 222 344; Fax: +255 27254 4568

TATEECO Ltd – Tel: +255 784 427817

AGRO-PROCESSING

ERTH Food - Tel: +255 22 2862040

MUKPAR Tanzania LtdTel: +255 28 250038/184

ASAS Diaries Limited - Tel: +255 26 2725200

Tanga Fresh – Tel +255 27 2644238

NatureRipe Kilimanjaro LimitedTel: +255 22 21 51457

EQUIPMENT

Achelis Tanganyika Ltd+255 22 2700 760 or +255 784 300 084

National Service Corporation Sole (SUMAJKT)Cell: +255 717 993 874, 715 787 887

FINANCE

Private Agricultural Sector Support (PASS)Tel: 023-3752/3758/3765

Community Bank AssociationTel: +255 22 2123245

Bank of TanzaniaP.O. Box 2939, Dar es Slaam,Tanzania

AGRO-INPUTS

Minjingu Mines & Fertilizers LtdTel: +255 27 253 9259 250 4679

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