It is all to do with poor marketing

facilities

Presentation by Lingson Adam

Poor Marketing haunts farmers in Tanzania

• It is not always the poor harvests due to poor agronomic practices or harsh weather conditions that render the majority Tanzanian small holder farmers ineffective;

• It is not even the lacking farm inputs and implements that are the main culprit; but most often than not;

• It is the lacking or rather poor infrastructures, unfriendly marketing facilities and poor entrepreneurial skills that haunt most farmers in Tanzania, and in many African countries, I presume. This is what renders agriculture unprofitable to poor farmers.

Maize plot

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A pineapple field in Msinune village, Bagamoyo district, Coastal region

Bumper pineapple harvest at Chalinze Coastal region; what happens if no buyer comes?

Double suffering to women peasants in Dodoma region

oranges

grapes

Children selling farm produce to passengers