Farmers want action on fake inputs sellers

What you need to know:

  • They said short of the government’s industrialisation drive and aspiration to make Tanzania a middle –income country by 2025 would not be realised. “It’s very frustrating as the pesticides are not effective causing us to incur heavy losses,” Rafaeli Josephat told The Citizen.
  • The farmers have appealed to the government to reduce the prices of key farm inputs, in particular pesticides and seeds.