YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: Massive creation of jobs in industrialisation debatable

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Sworn into the highest Office in the land on November 5, 2015, Dr Magufuli inaugurated the 11th Parliament on November 20 that year.

It’d also transform the Economy from currently being dominated by extractives (Mining, etc), erratic Tourism and Agriculture that’s threatened by rapidly-evolving Climate Change negatives! Today, Tanzania’s industrial sector comprises ‘simple manufacturing’ (53 per cent); ‘processing’ (43 per cent) and ‘assembling activities’ (4 per cent). Manufacturing consists of food-processing (24 per cent); textiles (10 per cent); chemicals (8.5 per cent), and ‘others.’ Since agriculture has traditionally been the mainstay of the economy, manufacturing generally involves processing local agricultural produce. But, many crops are still marketed in their raw form, with relatively little value-addition to them done on small-scale... Hence locally value-added products like yarn (cotton; sisal), twine (sisal), leather (‘Bora’ shoes, etc), blended coffee, tobacco products, wheat flour…

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: Massive creation of jobs in industrialisation debatable

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